Submitted 13-Jun-00 by Alex V Flinsch:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > It's based on fvwm - you'll have to edit the menu files there I�believe.
> >
> > wrong !! see /usr/doc/menu-*/menu.txt for documentation
> >
>
> OK, I worked out that if I make an entry in /usr/lib/menu the application will
> show up on the menus. The only problem is that it does not seem to work when
> the app was installed from something other than an rpm (a tarball for
> instance). Does the update-menus package require that the menu entry be in the
> rpm database? Is there a way around this problem?
Yes. From the menu documentation: Any "package" that starts with
"local." is considered installed. So, for example, StarOffice on my
system has a menu entry ?package(local.soffice): . . .
Also, I would only use /usr/lib/menu for global menu entries. ~/.menu
is where a user's personal entries go.
HTH
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