(please fix your mailer to wrap lines at about 72 or 75 char. its makes it much easier to read) On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:13:37PM +0000, james@soon.co.uk wrote: > > Unfortunately now have a no application menu problem with Window Maker. > > While attempting to edit the application launch menu with ?Application Menu Definition? and in spite of being shown a incompatibility warning and a error message I some how ended up with no default application menu, title bar is there but no menu can be pulled down from it. > > I know the details are sketchy and I should have noted what incompatibility and error messages said but stupidly I didn?t. > > Currently I am rebuilding the menu manually using ?Commands? in the ?Application Menu Definition? but I am certain to miss some thing important that was in the original default menu. > > I would be very grateful if any one can give me any kind of pointer as to how I can get back the default menu. you can't use windowmakers control panel to edit the menus, debian has a special menu system, but its so cool its worth being non-standard. i got into this situation when i first started using Debian, i think the way to fix it is: rm -f ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu* while windowmaker is not running, the next time you run i think you will get the debian menus back. if you want to add custom menus there is a way your do this, but i don't know the details, you edit a .menu or something, then run `update-menus' and you get your entries merged with debians. the advantage of this system is if you don't ever run update-menus as yourself you will automatically get menu entries for each new application installed on the system without any intervention on your part. if you have custom menus and run update-menus you would need to rerun update menus whenever new applications are installed, the only real flaw IMO. (update-menus also leaves alot of trash in your home directory as it creates menus for every installed windowmanager) check out /usr/share/doc/menu for more info. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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