des...@verizon.net wrote: > Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org> writes: > > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 06:58:59AM +1000, John H. Moe wrote: >> >>> j...@aus10224 ~ $ fvwm-menu-desktop >>> DestroyMenu "gnome-sys" >>> AddToMenu "gnome-sys" "Gnome System Menu" Title >>> j...@aus10224 ~ $ fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop kde-sys >>> DestroyMenu "kde-sys" >>> AddToMenu "kde-sys" "Kde System Menu" Title >>> j...@aus10224 ~ $ >>> >> What version of FVWM is this on? I did a tiny amount of work a few years >> ago now I think to "fix" the above, but thst was a few years ago. :) >> >> >>> My (un)educated guess is that the script is working, but it's not >>> finding menu definitions either where it's expecting, or in the format >>> it's expecting. >>> >> I am hoping Dan Espen will reply since he likes XDG menus [1]. >> > > Yep, hi all. > > The Fvwm script is broken and it should be removed before we > do a 2.6 release. The problem with the script is that the underlying > file structure changed. > > Here's what I'm using now: > > PipeRead 'xdg_menu --format fvwm2 2>/dev/null' > AddToMenu Utilities "&X. XDG Menu" Popup xdg_menu > > I thought I saw this in my distribution's repositories but I guess not. > > Head over to archlinux.org and you should be able to find it. > Excellent, thanks for that. My Gentoo install already had XML::Parser, so the script worked. I just had to specify the location of my menu file (/etc/xdg/menus/kde-4.3-applications.menu) and it spit out a nice config for me. I've added that to my menu file, and it works a treat.
Oh, and FWIW, this is on FVWM 2.5.28. John Moe
