Re: FVWM menus and colors

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@directlink.net>]

Lo, on Wednesday, January 24, Erik Steffl did write:

> Xucaen wrote:

<SNIP>

> > what is auto-generation? where is the program
> > called update-menus(is it a program??), how do I
> 
>   yes, that's it, to find a program:
> 
>   which program
>   locate program
>   find / -name program -print

This assumes that the program is on your system.  If it's not, check out
www.debian.org/Packages, and especially the file search form at the bottom.

In this case, though, update-menus is a program in the `menu' package.

<SNIP>

>   I don't find debian fvwm default settings very good (i.e. not exactly
> waht I want, which is true for basically any defualt settings:-), the
> most important feature is the automatically generated menu so you have
> easy access to all your installed software (or lot of, not everything is
> in menu).

I didn't like the debian defaults much either, but I wanted to keep the
automatically-generated menus.  So, in my post.hook, I created a *new*
top-level menu, which contains the Debian automatic menu system as one of
its choices, and rebound the mouse and keybindings to bring up this new
menu instead.  This way, I get all of the old choices I had when I was
still using RedHat, and I have access to the Debian stuff when I need it.

Now if I could just figure out how to reset the pager's properties in a
consistent fashion, I'd be in business.

Richard