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MobyTurbo
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 Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:56 pm Post subject: making new automatic fluxbox menus |
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Fluxbox apparently detects programs it knows about when you first install it. How can I get it to do this again, once I have a new program, without erasing it and rebuilding? (Yes, I know how to edit the menu file, but I'm lazy.  ) |
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xlyz
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| try using /usr/bin/commonbox-menugen |
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Ellidi
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 1:22 am Post subject: |
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Some people prefer Genmenu.
I'm pretty sure it's in portage :)
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MobyTurbo
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Ellidi wrote: | Some people prefer Genmenu.
I'm pretty sure it's in portage  |
It is in portage but it's masked. Thanks for your help. |
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Ellidi
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| MobyTurbo wrote: | | Ellidi wrote: | Some people prefer Genmenu.
I'm pretty sure it's in portage :) |
It is in portage but it's masked. Thanks for your help. |
No problemo.
Are you asking for help with the masked ebuild?
In that case.. | Code: | | # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge genmenu |
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Beaker
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| This really helped with my own fluxbox configuration. Are there similar tools for KDE or GNOME? |
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Ellidi
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Beaker wrote: | | This really helped with my own fluxbox configuration. Are there similar tools for KDE or GNOME? |
Well for one, I wouldn't know.. I don't use KDE or GNOME :)
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Ellidi
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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You might want to try Wmconfig, but I never tried it.. Not sure if it automatically generates menus or just lets you edit them..
I think there are also tools to convert menus from various window managers to KDE and/or Gnome menus.. might want to try generating something for your fluxbox and then convert it to KDE somehow.. :)
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MobyTurbo
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Ellidi wrote: | | You might want to try Wmconfig, but I never tried it.. Not sure if it automatically generates menus or just lets you edit them.. |
Wmconfig is apparently not in portage. If its for editing Windowmaker menus I don't see a use for it, WindowMaker has its own drag and drop menu editor that's very easy to use, one of its features that I miss a lot. Debian had an automatic multiple architecture menu generator that worked with nearly any window manager, "update-menus", that you could just run after an apt-get of a GUI program and have that program added to any and all of your window manager menus. I wish something like it was available that is not Debian-specific. (Of course, remaining complient with all of Debian's tools might be something that slows package development down under Debian.) |
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| there will be, freedesktop.org issued a standard for menus, so it has been said that the almighty devs are on the case. |
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