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