Package: fluxbox
Version: 0.9.11-1
Severity: normal
I wanted to use the Debian menu system to include user menus in fluxbox.
Just having a ~/.menu directory isn't enough for fluxbox but that should
be ok as long as clear instructions are provided.
First problem is the file
/usr/share/doc/fluxbox/README.Debian
It only says that
~/.fluxbox/init
should be "altered".
That information is of course totally useless : altered ? how ?
Someone pointed me to
/etc/X11/fluxbox/system.fluxbox-menu
which says a little more
"# to use your own menu, copy this to ~/.fluxbox/menu, then edit
# ~/.fluxbox/init and change the session.menuFile path to
# ~/.fluxbox/menu "
Why wasn't that information included in
/usr/share/doc/fluxbox/README.Debian ?
There is nothing in the flubox doc that could have directed me to that.
I really wish this could be fixed. I can't imagine any reason not to do
it since it would just take a few seconds to paste the three lines above
in
/usr/share/doc/fluxbox/README.Debian ?
Second problem is that when I followed these instructions, it didn't
work. I did exactly as instructed above then ran update-menus.
Not only my user menus didn't appear but the system wide Debian menu
disappeared the next time I started fluxbox leaving just the fluxbox
related items. It wasn't even possible to launch a terminal from the
menu.
Finally I tried adding the line
[include] (~/.fluxbox/menudefs.hook)
to
~/.fluxbox/menu
and it worked.
Should I have done that or should it have worked by strictly following
the instructions ? In the latter case, there is a serious bug somewhere.
In the former, it's a minor bug concerning the doc and I really can't
imagine why it couldn't be fixed asap.
I hope this can be useful to you.
Thanks for your work.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages fluxbox depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii menu 2.1.21 provides update-menus functions fo
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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