Debian-menu

mtb · 06-30-2003, 02:19 PM

I've recently installed something from source codes or from precompiled binaries ( eg. mozilla 1.3, skipstone, etc.).

How can i add an entry in the system menus ( so i can update them)?

Thx in adv.

0x4B · 06-30-2003, 05:28 PM

anything you add via apt/dpkg should update the menus itself. update-menus will do just that. if you alter the system menus in, they will be overwritten later. different window makers may store things in various locations, but the man page for update-menus may give you what you need

mtb · 07-01-2003, 02:23 AM

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Originally posted by 0x4B
anything you add via apt/dpkg should update the menus itself. update-menus will do just that.

Yes, if they are debian packages.

But i have only a dial up modem, and thus if i found interesting software let's say on magazine cd i install it.

Quote:

if you alter the system menus in, they will be overwritten later. different window makers may store things in various locations, but the man page for update-menus may give you what you need

Yes, i know different wm stores menus in different ways. The entries for the menus are ( not sure, now i'm @ university ) in /usr/lib/menu. For example if i want let's say open office ( not from a deb package ) i don't know how to add it.

And i had already read the man page.

My idea was to copy ex. the abiword entry and to modify it a bit, but in fact i obtained nothing.

footfrisbee · 07-01-2003, 05:31 AM

There's two places to add menu items in the Debian system. The first is /etc/menu. Here you can override any of the menu items in /usr/lib/menu, or you can add your own. The changes made here will be system-wide. The second place is ~/.menu in each user's home directory. As with /etc/menu, menu items can be changed or added, but the changes are limited to the user. You can read more about this in /usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html.

Good luck

mtb · 07-03-2003, 07:22 AM

Thank you a lot. Problem solved

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