"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:44:50PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Can anyone point me to a HOWTO for adding a menu item to Icewm > > (preferably written in plain-speak)? > Don't stop with Icewm! After all, what if you want to use Enlightenment > tomorrow? The best way is to use Debian's menu system. There are some > docs in /usr/doc/menu. Here's an example I put in /etc/menu: > > file = staroffice > > ?package(local.staroffice):\ > needs="x11"\ > section="Apps/Local/StarOffice"\ > title="StarOffice 5.1"\ > command="/usr/local/Office51/bin/soffice"\ > icon="/usr/local/Office51/s_soffice.xpm" > > ?package(local.staroffice):\ > needs="x11"\ > section="Apps/Local/StarOffice"\ > title="Setup"\ > command="/usr/local/Office51/bin/setup"\ > icon="/usr/local/Office51/s_soffice.xpm" > > The local.package in ?package() tells the menu system it's installed, > even if it's not in the dpkg database. Here, I have both the path to the > setup program and the executable for staroffice5.1a. Simply run > update-menus after putting a new file in /etc/menu. > -- > +----------------------------------------------------+ > | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | > | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | > +----------------------------------------------------+
That was the info I needed. I also had to figure out that I had to restart my wm, but that was no problem. I already had the files I needed in /usr/lib/menu (gnome-card-games) for gnome-freecell, but ever since I installed some little something the other day the menu item had disappeared; adding "local." allowed me to get the menu item back. (It should be in the dpkg database, but apparently trying to mix packages from stable and unstable is not a good idea :-( ) Thanks!
