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