On 19-Nov-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I make update-menus coexist with my custom wm config files? For > example, I rolled my own ~/.vtwmrc. Now, I apt-get install xinvaders. I > would like a menu entry for xinvaders to appear automagically in my > window manager, without losing my other customizations. > > The current behaviour is that the files ~/.vtwm/system.vtwmrc and > ~/.vtwm/menudefs.hook (or probably /etc/X11/vtwm/system.vtwmrc and > /etc/X11/vtwm/menudefs.hook if I don't run update-menus manually) are > updated, but my ~/.vtwmrc is unmodified. > > If I symlink ~/.vtwmrc to ~/.vtwm/system.vtwmrc, the whole thing gets > overwritten, which is not what I want, since it nukes my > customizations. >
you can run update-menus as a user. This will place a menu file for the wm in your home dir. Then edit your file to use that menu file instead.
