install-menu
Section: Debian GNU/Linux manual (1)
Updated: 28 November 2005
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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
provides 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 generate
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
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