install-menu(1) Debian GNU/Linux manual install-menu(1)
NAME
install-menu - Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a
window manager or a menu-aware application.
DESCRIPTION
update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn
to the menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/. The task of a menu methods
is to generate menus for a specific window manager. install-menu pro-
vides a generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation of
the install-menu definition language is available in the Debian Menu
manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html.
SYNOPSIS
install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method>
Read menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and gener-
ate menu files using the specified menu-method.
Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu.
OPTIONS
-h,--help
Show the help message and exit.
--remove
Remove the menu files instead of generating them.
-v,--verbose
Output messages about what the program is doing.
COPYING
install-menu is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public
License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
AUTHOR
Written by Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org>. Now maintained by
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.
SEE ALSO
update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html
Debian Project 28 November 2005 install-menu(1)
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