On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:03:36PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:26:03PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > cd /usr/share/doc/menu. read contents. enjoy.
"man update-menus" is also a good starter. > The Debian menu system is definitely your friend. However, I like a > little more control than what you can get from your .menu directory. > For example, The Debian menu system populates the menus in alphabetical > order. That's fine for a generic system, but when I'm customizing my > environment it's nice to have more control. Did you know that you can write your own user versions? Just copy the contents of /etc/menu-methods/ to ~/.menu-methods/ and tweak away. > Another nice thing I do with WindowMaker is define "XTERM" in my > wmmacros file to be the terminal emulator I'd like to use. That way all > my menu entries that bring up terminal windows (remote logins, whatever) > bring up similar looking windows. If I ever decide to switch from Eterm > to something else, it's just a matter of changing a single line and > restarting Window Maker. (I do hope that all terminal emulators will > continue to support -e they way most currently seem to.) Have a look at /etc/menu-methods/menu.h, it is there already. > I just figured I'd share a couple tips for customizing your environment. > I'm sure there are other ways to do what I do, and I'm sure other people > have neat things they do to make their interface more useful. With "menu" package, there's need to reinvent the wheel, just build the car. Cheers, Joost
