Well, it doesn't say fvwm, but it appears that xfce/xfwm syntax is
compatible with fvwm. Oh well. I wanted to convert my old menu anyway,
and it was a good exercise.
jpkotta
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:32:05 -0500, Rusty Phillips <rustyp_at_freeshell.org>
wrote:
> I think menumaker actually supports fvwm. Here's the command line help
> from menumaker:
> MenuMaker 0.17 - 100% Python menu generator for X window managers
>
> http://menumaker.sourceforge.net
> (c) 2002-2004 Oleg A. Khlybov <fougas_at_mail.ru>
> Usage:
> mmaker [-hvcrA] [-o out_file] window_manager {window_manager ...}
>
> -h prints this usage information
> -v turns on verbosity
> -c enables cache usage (quick regeneration without rescanning)
> -r omits directory parts from executables where possible
> -o specifies file to write menu to instead of WM specific place in
> user's home
> -A enables Active Menus feature (EXPERIMENTAL)
>
> window_manager is WM to generate menu for
>
> WMs supported (case insensitive): Deskmenu, FluxBox, IceWM, OpenBox,
> OpenBox3, (WindowMaker | WMaker), (XFce | XFwm), (XFce4 | XFdesktop4)
>
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 00:04 -0600, jpkotta wrote:
>> There is a really nice utility called MenuMaker. It's a Python based
>> menu
>> generator that searches your system for programs that it recognizes, and
>> builds them into a menu. It supports several window managers, but
>> unfortunately not fvwm. It does support icewm, which is what I used to
>> use before fvwm.
>>
>> Since I'm somewhat familiar with icewm, its menus have a pretty simple
>> syntax, and I wanted to convert my old icewm menu anyway, I wrote a Perl
>> script to convert icewm menus to fvwm menus. It works for me, but YMMV.
>> I'm not much of a coder, and I haven't tested it very well. If you try
>> my
>> script, please let me know how it works. To see how to use it, run
>> 'icewm2fvwm_menu -h'.
>>
>> MenuMaker homepage: http://menumaker.sourceforge.net/
>> MenuMaker download:
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67400&package_id=65766
>>
>> jpkotta
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