Jaimos Skriletz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 08:49:14PM +0100, michael.gros...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:53:15AM +0100, Michael Großer wrote: >> > > You will run into the problem that MenuFvwmRoot >> > > does not contain "D. Debian Menu" anymore like >> > > it used to be in Debian Lenny with FVWM 2.5.26. >> > > >> > >> > Just read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook into your config. >> > >> > Claude >> >> I tried it. With no luck. It was one of my obvious ideas. >> Maybe, I did something wrong, but in my case, it didn't work. >> Perhaps, I should try to include "/etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook" >> in FVWM "2.6.5", if it contains such a file. I tested both >> "2.5.30" and "2.6.5" yesterday, bulldozing my two Debian >> partitions after each test with a fresh and chaste version >> of Squeeze, but I did different tests with "2.5.30" and >> "2.6.5". I made more tests with "2.5.30", because it was >> more Debian affine than "fvwm-2.6.5.tar.bz2". >> > > the menu is created with a debian menu-methods and the output is the > /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook by default on the debian package (I just checked > this myself). > > 'Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook' will just read the debian menu but not add > it to your root menu. So that file only contains the info generated by the > debian 'menu' package. > > you should less that file, but the menu name is /Debian and you can get the > menu by doing 'popup /Debian' and there is the menu. You can add that to your > root menu to get access to the menu from there. > > Note you will have to 'Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook' each time you > add/remove packages to change the menu you will need to reread that file to > get the updated menu. But this method ensures that you only add the menu to > your current config and not all fo the other stuff from the default debian > config file. > > jaimos > >
Hi! I can give it a try during the next 6 months. 'popup /Debian' could be an approach that I should indeed pursue. As usual, I will report about my progress when it is time. What do you mean with "you should less that file"? Using the "less" command to do something with that file? And if so, what? > and not all fo the other stuff from > the default debian config file. Yeah, I know. I only need the Debian menu. The other stuff is of no interest. It just interferes with my own config. It could be a good idea to transform a future version of "/etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc" into a 2, 3, 4, ... or 9 liner, which includes other files to add features to the default config. One 'read' command reads in menus, one 'read' command reads in a pager, one some window decorations, one a clock, and the user could set a "#" character before each 'read' command whose feature he/she does not like. This could be a very convenient modular approach for picky users like me ;-) - Michael -
