Hi David, a simple:
make && make install should work (as root, or with sudo). It just copies the ratmenu binary in /usr/bin. However, there is no auto-generation of menus. You'll have to create the menu files yourself. You can look in this tarball for some examples: https://download.salixos.org/x86_64/14.0/source/l/user-settings-ratpoison/user-settings-ratpoison.tar.gz you can copy the files under the menu-basic or menu-full directory to your ~/.ratmenu directory. You can edit those to your liking. There is also a .ratpoisonrc in there under the skel directory that shows how to call those menus. It's basically something like this: bind r exec ~/.ratmenu/main.sh Regards, George On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 9:27 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n...@arrl.net> wrote: > Hello George, > > Nice to hear from you. > > I found ratmenu here. https://github.com/trapd00r/ratmenu > <https://medium.com/netdef/installing-debian-packages-on-slackware-1ed5b8e1d3c0> > > Do you have any advice for installing it in Slackware? > > There is a script deb2tgz which does its best to convert a deb file > (Debian) to a tgz (Slackware) file. > > https://medium.com/netdef/installing-debian-packages-on-slackware-1ed5b8e1d3c0 > > I just got nervous when I saw mentions of "menu" files, the subject makes > my brain boil and my feet feel deep fried, as those "menu" > file configurations probably beyond my ken. > > Best regards, > > David Ring > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:38 PM George Vlahavas <vlaha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> you most probably don't have ratmenu installed in Slint. At least if you >> installed ratpoison using the SlackBuild at SBo, it doesn't come with >> ratmenu. >> >> Regards, >> >> George >> >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:05 PM David J. Ring, Jr. <n...@arrl.net> wrote: >> >>> I am trying to get ratpoison working the same way as ratpoison in Debian >>> in SLINT which is slackware Internetional and for the visually impaired. >>> >>> My darned memory isn't very good and Debian has key bindings so if I use >>> C-t then : I get a window and I can enter "menu" and get a menu. For me, >>> a menu is a needed crutch for my poor short term memory, Debian does >>> this, but Slackware doesn't do this, and I'm trying to figure out "WHY?" >>> >>> So I thought it was the ratpoisonrc file. Debian doesn't have a >>> ratpoisonrc file either under /etc/ratpoisonrc or in ~/.ratpoisonrc >>> >>> Debian ratpoison is version 1.4.9 >>> Slint ratpoison is version 1.4.9 also. >>> >>> I attach my ~/.ratpoisonrc file from Debian. >>> >>> With great hopes that I can have a menu in Slackware / SLINT. >>> >>> Regards, >>> David Ring >>> >>> >>> >>>
