[ctwm] Re: [repository.lp.se #114] Folding menus
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm talking about menus that are so long that they don't fit on the screen. For example, on my laptop, the Debian-Apps-Tools menu is very large and doesn't fit on my screen. Oh. My bad. I didn't realize. I have never seen such horribly long menus.
[ctwm] Re: [repository.lp.se #114] Folding menus
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:54:43 +0100 (CET), J.O. Aho [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: trizt On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker via RT wrote: trizt trizt In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:55:56 +0100, Michael Widerkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: trizt trizt mc Many window managers don't fold menus that extend below trizt mc the screen. Instead, they simply display the menu trizt mc slightly higher, so that the menu window can fit on the trizt mc visible screen. trizt trizt I'm talking about menus that are so long that they don't fit trizt on the screen. For example, on my laptop, the trizt Debian-Apps-Tools menu is very large and doesn't fit on my trizt screen. trizt trizt Why make the meny that big in the first place? trizt I like to have submenus so that I don't have any big ones. They are automatically generated by the Debian installer and accessed via this line in my configuration (which needs m4 to work, of course): undivert(`/etc/X11/ctwm/menudefs.hook') Cheers, Richard - Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. -- C.S. Lewis
[ctwm] Re: [repository.lp.se #114] Folding menus
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:54:43PM +0100 I heard the voice of J.O. Aho, and lo! it spake thus: Why make the meny that big in the first place? I like to have submenus so that I don't have any big ones. I have a menu with all the xlock modes on it (for no particularly good reason, other than that the idea stuck me once). I ended up writing a perl script to parse the xlock mode list output and generate a set of more'd submenus with 25 modes on each. It comes out to 5 of 'em, each of which is a bit less than half the height of my screen. (Actually, it doesn't generate ctwm menus as output, it generates perl definitions of ctwm menus, since I build them with a perl script on the fly, but who wants to get THAT nutty? ;) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
[ctwm] Re: [repository.lp.se #114] Folding menus
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:54:43PM +0100 I heard the voice of J.O. Aho, and lo! it spake thus: Why make the meny that big in the first place? I like to have submenus so that I don't have any big ones. I have a menu with all the xlock modes on it (for no particularly good reason, other than that the idea stuck me once). I ended up writing a perl script to parse the xlock mode list output and generate a set of more'd submenus with 25 modes on each. It comes out to 5 of 'em, each of which is a bit less than half the height of my screen. (Actually, it doesn't generate ctwm menus as output, it generates perl definitions of ctwm menus, since I build them with a perl script on the fly, but who wants to get THAT nutty? ;) So how does this work really, as it do sound a bit interesting for me. Have myself been thinking of making menus of all those *.desktop that are used by many desktop environments for their menu entries, didn't think of making this on fly, as I guess that can be pritty slow to use the menus, but generate statick menu files. Maybe someone has already made a such script that makes menus of the *.desktop files. -- //Aho E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL: http://www.kotiaho.net/~trizt/ ICQ: 13696780 System: Linux System(PPC7447/1000 AMD K7A/2000) EU forbids you to send spam without my permission
