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Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux menus
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:35:57 -0400
From: "D. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I looked in that folder, and blackbox isn't in there. Fluxbox is, though. I
think I will just edit that one to my own specs.
Would a script in there called blackbox be executed then, when I run
blackbox, or just when I do an menu-update or whatever?
Thanks for the info!
On Friday 12 July 2002 10:58 am, you wrote:
> On 12-Jul-2002 Ben Rasmussen wrote:
> > Did you compile bb yourself? I'm using the mandrake blackbox rpm which
> > includes a blackbox script in /etc/menu-methods/. I'm assuming this is
> > needed for mandrake to create the bb menu. I may be completely wrong,
> > however, as I'm pretty new to blackbox and linux.
>
> nope you are 100% correct. They are using something either based on
> Debian's menu system or created to match it.
>
> in /etc/menu-methods is one script per wm. This script is given items for
> a menu and it outputs the right menu. So if you had a wm which had a xml
> menu it would get:
>
> "exec" "Mozilla" "/usr/bin/mozilla" # made up for discussion, but close
> enough
>
> and output:
>
> <item>
> <title>Mozilla</title>
> <exec>/usr/bin/mozilla</exec>
> </item>
>
> whereas the blackbox script outputs:
>
> [exec] (Mozilla) {/usr/bin/mozilla}
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