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Edit system wide kmenu as system administrator.

Three questions...

1. Is it possible to edit the kmenu via command line?

2. How do you add/remove kmenu entries for all users all at once as system administrator?

3. How can you add/remove entries for a specific user as system administrator?

As administrator, I don't want to log in as other users to edit their kmenu.

Thanks

hi, If you login as root you will be changing the system menu.

I'm not sure that it would control the users menu,

but you can have a list-file for it to read from.

I have not required this, experiment for your self.

kmenuedit --help(-qt or -kde)

cheers, Glenn

Thanks Glenn for the response.

If I understand you correctly, a list-file has a list to which is added the kmenu when x is started. I googled, searched both kde help, and kmenuedit --help(-qt or -kde) but could not find anything about "list-file".

Could you give me a little more detail?

Code:

glenn@GamesBox:~$ kmenuedit --help-kde                                      (23-06 12:54)

Usage: kmenuedit [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [menu] [menu-id]



KDE menu editor



Generic options:

  --help                    Show help about options

  --help-qt                Show Qt specific options

  --help-kde                Show KDE specific options

  --help-all                Show all options

  --author                  Show author information

  -v, --version            Show version information

  --license                Show license information

  --                        End of options



KDE options:

  --caption <caption>      Use 'caption' as name in the titlebar

  --icon <icon>            Use 'icon' as the application icon

  --config <filename>      Use alternative configuration file

  --nocrashhandler          Disable crash handler, to get core dumps

  --waitforwm              Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager

  --style <style>          sets the application GUI style

  --geometry <geometry>    sets the client geometry of the main widget - see man X for the argument format

  --nofork                  Do not run in the background.

That's all I was referring to.

In the gui of the same program you can edit it and save it "as root" and it affects all users, as far as I remember.

regards Glenn