If I remember correctly the /etc/menus dir is for pkgs you want skipped when update-menus is run. Maybe skipped is incorrect. It's not updated by the program but the super-user. Meaning that nothing added by dpkg will be added to the menus in this dir. Making the menu system non-operational if you put all your menus in this dir.
In the instance of the Afterstep window manager there is a system.steprc-menu file (/etc/X11/afterstep/) that can be modified since update-menus uses it as a skelliton when it creates the system.steprc file with the new pkgs added to the menus automatically. Once you move the Debian menuitem to the appropriate place and make it a sub-menu instead of the main menu. /etc/menus is for menus you don't want automatically updated with new packages. You have to add them by hand if they are in this dir. I imagine that all the menus have a skelliton file like Afterstep's so the updates are done automatically as the program was created to do. On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > If you've got the menu package installed, the /etc/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook > > file is auto-generated by "update-menus", and thus should not be > > edited. If you want to add menuentries, you can > > -add them to the end of the menu in your /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc > > -remove the "DestroyMeny\\n" in /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2. > > I primarily use fvwm95 (boos and hisses from the purists) but fvwm2 uses > the same menu system as I understand it. To customize my menus I put > files into my /etc/menus and started the filenames with > "local*". This works great for me. I can add and edit the menu entries to > my leisure. I really like the menu package now that I've got it > working ok!! Perhaps I misunderstand the problem. I apologize if this is > the case. > > > > > Menu-1.0 (to be released shortly) will add "this is a auto-generated > > file, don't edit" at the top of /etc/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook. > > Thought it was already there...hmmm > > > Thanks, > > -- > > joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Richard Morin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > =============================================================================== > Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like > the > ones in movies. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
