MenuMaker in Arch

Dead Parrot · 03-13-2004, 07:24 AM

I've used menumaker with fluxbox in some other distros. This enables me to right-click the root window with mouse and I get a menu for launching installed applications. In Arch this doesn't appear to work very well, perhaps because Arch installs by default lots of apps under /opt . So I was wondering if there is a way to tweak menumaker so that it would look for apps installed in places where Arch likes to put them?

zeppelin · 03-13-2004, 05:17 PM

hello. if you think that the problem is the PATHS then you can try
./configure --help | less
and pray that the configure script of menumaker will give you the ability to change some paths. But are you sure that the path is the problem?

Dead Parrot · 03-15-2004, 01:29 PM

It may be that this is more a flaw in MenuMaker's detection mechanism than anything Arch specific. It's just a bit annoying that MenuMaker cannot detect my most often used desktop applications (Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird & OpenOffice) and I need to edit menus manually. The whole idea of using MenuMaker was to not have to edit menus manually. Oh, well.

zeppelin · 03-15-2004, 02:10 PM

well what to do.. :P
btw, How did you came up with that nick name? ( Dead Parrot )

Dead Parrot · 03-15-2004, 03:22 PM

Ever watched Monty Python's Flying Circus?

zeppelin · 03-15-2004, 03:46 PM

No one day I'm gonna see all Monty Python's movies and Films. At the moment I know the scene with SPAM, another scene witha dead parrot (oh that's the one?!) a movie with the life of Jesus

and a film that also plays Sean Connery and Monty Python travel thru time.. Sean is Menelaus or sth :P {I'm from Greece} anyways ;P have fun! with Arch Linux