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Re: fvwm2 menus burned



If I remember correctly the /etc/menus dir is for pkgs you want skipped
when update-menus is run.  Maybe skipped is incorrect.  It's not updated
by the program but the super-user.  Meaning that nothing added by dpkg
will be added to the menus in this dir.  Making the menu system
non-operational if you put all your menus in this dir.

In the instance of the Afterstep window manager there is a
system.steprc-menu file (/etc/X11/afterstep/) that can be modified since
update-menus uses it as a skelliton when it creates the system.steprc file
with the new pkgs added to the menus automatically.  Once you move the
Debian menuitem to the appropriate place and make it a sub-menu instead of
the main menu.

/etc/menus is for menus you don't want automatically updated with new
packages.  You have to add them by hand if they are in this dir.  I
imagine that all the menus have a skelliton file like Afterstep's so the
updates are done automatically as the program was created to do.


On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Richard Morin wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> 
> > If you've got the menu package installed, the /etc/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook
> > file is auto-generated by "update-menus", and thus should not be
> > edited. If you want to add menuentries, you can 
> >   -add them to the end of the menu in your /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc
> >   -remove the "DestroyMeny\\n" in /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2.
> 
> I primarily use fvwm95 (boos and hisses from the purists) but fvwm2 uses
> the same menu system as I understand it.  To customize my menus I put
> files into my /etc/menus and started the filenames with
> "local*". This works great for me.  I can add and edit the menu entries to
> my leisure.  I really like the menu package now that I've got it
> working ok!! Perhaps I misunderstand the problem. I apologize if this is
> the case.
> 
> > 
> > Menu-1.0 (to be released shortly) will add "this is a auto-generated
> > file, don't edit" at the top of /etc/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook.
> 
> Thought it was already there...hmmm 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > -- 
> > joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
> 
> Richard Morin
> joanarich@speedline.ca
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