Re: FVWM: Looking for a utility

From: Tim Hanson <tjhanson_at_attbi.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:22:43 -0700

Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2002 01:39:17 -0700, Tim Hanson wrote:
>
> Two issues. 1) If you want to simply create a static menu, just write a
> script that prints "DestroyMenu MyMenu", "AddToMenun MyMenu" lines and run
> it using "PipeRead your_script" command.
>
> 2) If you want to have dynamical menus, upgrade your FVWM version to
> 2.4.8. The one that is shipped with SuSE 7.1 is too old (2.2.4).
>
> These 2 shell scripts that create dynamical menus are in:
>
> ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/devel/sources/utils/
>
> But check whether one of the 4 fvwm-menu-* scripts that are installed with
> the rest of FVWM (2.4.x or 2.5.x) do the job you need. They have man pages:
>
> % man fvwm-menu-desktop
> % man fvwm-menu-directory
> % man fvwm-menu-headlines
> % man fvwm-menu-xlock
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
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Thanks for the help. I've got Suse 8.0 on my laptop; it still needs to
go on a server
and a desktop, but it's so much different than 7.x I'm going to go
slowly. I just found
out how to get Nautilus started without having it load its own background.


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