Stuart Longland
2012-03-10 01:35:01 UTC
Hi all,
I've been a long time user of Linux, and since about 1996, I've moved
between many window managers and desktop environments.
I started out with FVWM, on Red Hat 4.0, and since then have moved
between environments such as FVWM95 (mainly on Slackware), MWM, OLVWM,
WindowMaker, KDE, Gnome (1 & 2), XFCE (3 & 4), LXDE, CTWM, and numerous
others. I still quite often find myself oscillating between KDE and
FVWM; often the former on more high-end systems, and the latter where I
want something minimal.
Recently I've got fed up of KDE's antics, and have started setting up
FVWM2 proper. I wanted a convenient way of updating the menus from the
KDE menus. Luckily, there's fvwm-menu-desktop. However, I struck a
couple of snags.
One, is that the documentation seems out of date. It tells us to use
the --desktop option, which is now "obsolete". Easily fixed once I
realised what was wrong, but still worth noting.
Second, it initially couldn't find the root menu. It was looking for
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, but couldn't find it. I did notice a
"kde-4-applications.menu" however, so I symlinked it, and that worked.
Third thing I noticed, is that there were no keybindings (&-prefixed
characters) generated, and if a menu happened to contain a & symbol,
that symbol was falsely interpreted as a key-binding. So I concocted
the attached patch.
This is a patch against the 2.6.3 release of FVWM's fvwm-menu-desktop.
It first prefixes & characters with a second & so they don't get
gobbled up. Next, it looks for the first letter or digit that isn't
already allocated to another menu item, and prefixes that with an &.
mnemonic field in the .menu file; I didn't look into this, but this
works well enough for my needs, and so I submit it here in the hope it
may be helpful to someone else.
Regards,
I've been a long time user of Linux, and since about 1996, I've moved
between many window managers and desktop environments.
I started out with FVWM, on Red Hat 4.0, and since then have moved
between environments such as FVWM95 (mainly on Slackware), MWM, OLVWM,
WindowMaker, KDE, Gnome (1 & 2), XFCE (3 & 4), LXDE, CTWM, and numerous
others. I still quite often find myself oscillating between KDE and
FVWM; often the former on more high-end systems, and the latter where I
want something minimal.
Recently I've got fed up of KDE's antics, and have started setting up
FVWM2 proper. I wanted a convenient way of updating the menus from the
KDE menus. Luckily, there's fvwm-menu-desktop. However, I struck a
couple of snags.
One, is that the documentation seems out of date. It tells us to use
the --desktop option, which is now "obsolete". Easily fixed once I
realised what was wrong, but still worth noting.
Second, it initially couldn't find the root menu. It was looking for
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, but couldn't find it. I did notice a
"kde-4-applications.menu" however, so I symlinked it, and that worked.
Third thing I noticed, is that there were no keybindings (&-prefixed
characters) generated, and if a menu happened to contain a & symbol,
that symbol was falsely interpreted as a key-binding. So I concocted
the attached patch.
This is a patch against the 2.6.3 release of FVWM's fvwm-menu-desktop.
It first prefixes & characters with a second & so they don't get
gobbled up. Next, it looks for the first letter or digit that isn't
already allocated to another menu item, and prefixes that with an &.
DestroyMenu "FvwmMenu-Utilities"
AddToMenu "FvwmMenu-Utilities" "Utilities" Title
+ "&Akonaditray" Exec akonaditray
+ "A&rk" Exec ark -caption "Ark"
+ "&Disk Utility" Exec palimpsest
+ "&Filelight" Exec filelight
+ "&HP Device Manager" Exec hp-toolbox
+ "&KAlarm" Exec kalarm -caption "KAlarm"
+ "K&Calc" Exec kcalc -caption "KCalc"
+ "KChar&Select" Exec kcharselect -caption "KCharSelect"
+ "KD&E Groupware Wizard" Exec groupwarewizard
+ "K&Gpg" Exec kgpg
+ "K&Jots" Exec kjots -caption "KJots"
+ "K&Notes" Exec knotes
+ "K&TeaTime" Exec kteatime
A better solution might be to see if there is some sort of keybindingAddToMenu "FvwmMenu-Utilities" "Utilities" Title
+ "&Akonaditray" Exec akonaditray
+ "A&rk" Exec ark -caption "Ark"
+ "&Disk Utility" Exec palimpsest
+ "&Filelight" Exec filelight
+ "&HP Device Manager" Exec hp-toolbox
+ "&KAlarm" Exec kalarm -caption "KAlarm"
+ "K&Calc" Exec kcalc -caption "KCalc"
+ "KChar&Select" Exec kcharselect -caption "KCharSelect"
+ "KD&E Groupware Wizard" Exec groupwarewizard
+ "K&Gpg" Exec kgpg
+ "K&Jots" Exec kjots -caption "KJots"
+ "K&Notes" Exec knotes
+ "K&TeaTime" Exec kteatime
mnemonic field in the .menu file; I didn't look into this, but this
works well enough for my needs, and so I submit it here in the hope it
may be helpful to someone else.
Regards,
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''.
Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` :
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.'
http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.'
I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''.
Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` :
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.'
http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.'
I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.