Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work?
Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:32:22PM -0400
In reply to:Andrew Chung
Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > ?package(gtcd):needs="x11" icon="none" section="Apps/Sound" \
> > title="Gtcd" command="/usr/X11R6/bin/gtcd"
> >
> > but it still doesn't show up in the menu of any user after I run
> > update-menus.
> > Yet 2 removed apps are still showing up in the Users menu.
>
> Did you run update-menu as yourself or as root? On my system I have to run
> it as myself before it will add/remove the entries to/from my menu...even
> for site-wide menu files.
Yes, I have tried both as root and as a user, even tho I did not see
any reference that is had to be done by both.
>
> Also note that the name in package(xxxx) should be the name of the package,
> otherwise it won't add it to your menu..
I have tried ?package(tcd) and ?package(gtcd) and neither get the item
added to the 'users' menu, but! Andrew, your right about the package
name.!! I read <package-name> as menu package name, duh. :-(
I created a new user to test this out. When that user runs update-menus
it gets an error,
"Cannot open file /etc/X11/mwm//system.mwmrc
/etc/menu-methods//mwm-menumethod: Aborting"
If I don't run update-menus but run X, a GNUstep menu is created
(Wmaker is the default WM) and X runs fine but the 'gtcd' item is missing
from the test users menus. Update-menus fails again, after exiting X.
I copied the ~user/.menu/gtcd to /etc/menu and ran update-menus as
both me and root. It is now showing up in root's menu!
I them moved /etc/menu/gtcd to /root/.menu, reran update-menus,
restarted the WM, and the item 'disappeared' from roots menu.(?)
Moving it back to /etc/menu and running update-menus did NOT add
it back to the root menu.(!?) Gtcd isn't in any menu at this point.
I have noticed that roots apps/net menu has 24 items in it (including
3 Netscape entries, that in Debian, can't run) and only 18 entries in
the my apps/net menu. Only one of which is a Netscape entry. I then
moved the GNUstep to 1-GNUstep entered X again. Now I have the same
apps/net menu as root does (WM interacts with update-menus somehow).
So here is what I now have.
1. To add items to the root menu you put the new items in /etc/menu.
And it works, sometimes.
2. Adding new menu entries in ~/.menu doesn't work, for anyone.
3. The items in /usr/lib/menu don't all show up in user menus if that
user has a GNUstep menu already.
4. There is an interaction between the update-menus program and
whatever WindowManager you are using. I am not sure, yet, what the
fix is but I now have enough info to research it.
5. wmakerconf doesn' work. Running it segfaults with errors of
a. no root/pixmaps file
b. no /root/crontab
c. After fixing a & b it does **Error** sissegv: caught
Looks like I have opened a can of worms here. Looks like I will
change WM to fvwm and start this all over again.
Andrew, what WM are you running and do you see any of the above
happening?
I will end this before it becomes a Book. I will update as I find
answers to the above.
Thanks Andrew!
Wayne
--
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-- S. C. Johnson
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