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Debian Menu System

Abstract

The menu package was inspired by the install-fvwm2-menu program from the old fvwm2 package. However, menu tries to provide a more general interface for menu building. With the update-menus command from this package, no package needs to be modified for every X window manager again, and it provides a unified interface for both text- and X-oriented programs.

Copyright Notice

Copyright ©1997 Joost Witteveen, Joey Hess, Christian Schwarz. ©2002-2005 Bill Allombert.

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Menu from the viewpoint of a user
  • 2.1 How/when do the window manager startup files get created?
  • 2.2 Tuning of the generated window manager startup files
  • 2.3 Optimization of menu tree: hints
• 3 The menu file
  • 3.1 Location
  • 3.2 Syntax
  • 3.3 The title field
  • 3.4 The needs field
  • 3.5 The section field
  • 3.6 The command field
  • 3.7 The icon field
  • 3.8 The hints field
  • 3.9 Entries for menu sections.
  • 3.10 Fvwm's task and title bars
• 4 What packages with applications should do
  • 4.1 Providing a menu file
  • 4.2 Adding a hook for dpkg in your packages
• 5 What packages with menu managers should do
• 6 How a user can override the menus
  • 6.1 Configuring the menus
  • 6.2 Specifying that a menu entry should not be displayed
  • 6.3 Including other files
• 7 The internals of the menu package
  • 7.1 The update-menus program
  • 7.2 The install-menu program
  • 7.3 The install-menu config script definitions
  • 7.4 Hints, tree optimization
• 8 Variables and functions in the install-menu scripts
  • 8.1 String constants
  • 8.2 Variables
  • 8.3 Functions

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Debian Menu System