Awesome information Holly, thank you very much. I was able to get the app in my menu and the icon working as well.
One of the problems was definately making the file executable Thanks again :) - George > George P Nychis schreef: >> Hi luke, >> >> I unfortunately can't answer either of your questions... but i'd also >> like to know how to add|remove programs for the menu at the top. In >> particular I have been installing small games for Gentoo's portage that >> do not show up in the menu, i've seen >> /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/fvwm/Applications ... and i've tried adding >> files in there with the same format as the others, and reloading my >> menu's but it never seems to work. > > George, you're on the right track, but you've just missed/didn't know > about the final step :-) . > > What you want is to do the following: > > 1. Copy/create the Application/whatever parent folder to/in > ~/.fvwm/Applications/whatever. > > Meaning, that if you want your app to show up in Games/Arcade, copy either > copy /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/fvwm/Applications/20~Games/Arcade to > ~/.fvwm/Applications/ (and delete the contents, if you like, but you don't > have to if they're going to remain exactly the same as the "originals"), > or, if you don't mind manual labor, just create the 20~Games/Arcade tree > in ~/.fvwm/Applications. The idea being that you need to replicate the > tree as it currently exists (unless you're making a new category or > submenu). > > 2. The other usefulness of copying the parent folder rather than creating > empty folders is that it gives you easy access to an example to work from. > Open some item file that's like the one you want to create and edit it to > suit the application you want it to open. Save the new file *as* (don't > save!! save as) .... > (#)~name_of_the_executable~name_you_want_to_see_in_menu. "#", of course, > refers to priority, if you want the app to appear somewhere specific on > the list of apps; the higher the number (I think they go from 1 to 20 with > 20 being the highest) the higher priority the app will have and the higher > it will appear on the list. If no priority is given, the apps will be > sorted alphabetically after any priority items. > > So if we were talking about Fake NES the NES emulator, which I in fact > made a menu item for, the script containing the file would be saved as > (and in fact is saved as) > > 14~fakenes~FakeNES > > The executable binary (in /usr/bin) is 'fakenes', the name that appears on > the menu is 'FakeNES'. The priority is "in the middle' because items in > the RPG folder have the highest priority on my system (they're all from > 16-20, so appear at the top of the menu), but emulators come second (I > made a new folder in 20~Games, called Emulators, where this and DOSBox and > the like reside). > > Just as a note, you can also put Wine-emulated programs in your > FVWM-Crystal menu; the Application scripts are quite flexible. It's > perfectly possible to have a script have more commands than just "exec > binary_name $@". You can just as well have a script that says something > like: > > #!/bin/sh cd /usr/local/games/DeusEx/System wine DeusEx.exe > > or > > #!/bin/sh cd /usr/local/games/Bethesda\ Softworks/Morrowind exec cedega > -run Morrowind Morrowind $@ > > > 3. You may have noticed me keep referring to 'scripts', and if you are at > all familiar with shell scripting, the > > #!/bin/sh > > at the top of my two examples probably tipped my hand. You see, the thing > about scripts is that they don't run if they are not executable. > > So the reason why your new application entries are not appearing, George, > is because you either didn't know, or forgot (I *always* forget this and > then have to go back and do it after I restart fvwm-crystal and the > entries don't show up) that you have to make the new entries executable > before you restart, or fvwm-crystal will just ignore them. > > chmod +x </path/to/file> ought to do it, or just right-click the file in a > GUI file manager, choose "Properties", go to the "Permissions" tab, and > check the "File is executable" box. > > Hope this helps. > > Oh and btw-- if you want an icon to appear in the menu, make sure that > your icon (correctly sized; you need at least the 22x22 and 32x32 sizes > for the icon to show up in all locations, I think 48x48 is for the desktop > icons and I don't know what 16x16 is used for) is named the same as the > executable. Then fvwm-crystal will pick it up automatically. However, you > may or may not get an icon in the application titlebar (that seems to be > based on Class Name, and the Class name is usually, but not always the > same as the executable name). If you have a menu icon but not a titlebar > icon, edit (or copy and edit) ./components/styles/Application-Icons-22-32 > to tell FVWM-Crystal that "Style (classname of executable-- use the > "Identify" function if you don't know what it is) should use a particular > icon in the 22x22 and 32x32 folders. > > Good luck. > > Holly (who almost had a whole guide finished, then 3.0.x --now x=3-- came > out and I had to start over again since so much changed, again :-) ) > > _______________________________________________ FVWM-Crystal-users mailing > list FVWM-Crystal-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/fvwm-crystal-users > > -- _______________________________________________ FVWM-Crystal-users mailing list FVWM-Crystal-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/fvwm-crystal-users
