Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told me that it needed to update the menus. I told it to keep the current menus,and now all my menus are gone!!! I don't have anything under the application menu. How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. Before doing the Debian-to-WindowMaker menu conversion, you need to edit ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu to contain the full path to menu.hook (/etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook). WindowMaker itself is smart enough to look around in several places (complete list in the man page), but wmakerconf isn't. If you don't want to convert your menus, just click over to another tab without answering wmakerconf's question. You can restore the default debian menus by editing ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu to contain /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook and nothing else. (Just menu.hook works too, but may cause you to have this same problem again.) If you do convert them, you gain the ability to edit the menus on a per-user basis and use some wmaker enhancements, such as assigning a hotkey to any menu item. The downside is that newly-installed packages will no longer be automagically added to the menus. (Although I consider that an advantage also, as the default behaviour is, IMO, far too inclusive. I prefer to have only the things I use on my menus. YMMV.) -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P+ L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r y+
Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!
I had the same problem. I ran update-menu, apt-get remove/install but still could not get my menus back. I then useradd noone,(created a bogus user) and logged in with wmaker. Lo and behold noone had the original menu. So I copied the contents of home/noone/GNUstep/defaults to the other users directories, allowed overwriting of existing files and was all set. Good Luck smokez wrote: On Thursday 07 June 2001 4:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told me that it needed to update the menus. I told it to keep the current menus,and now all my menus are gone!!! I don't have anything under the application menu. How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. Thanks, try 'update-menus' on debian systems it seems that you will be unable to directly edit the menus via wmakeconf because it includes a menu (from somewhere i don't rember via menu.hook) which is generated from installed packages (thou im _not_ 100% sure on this) have a look in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. Check ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu. Try moving it out of the way completely and copying /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu to its place. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpJVaWRbJjAk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!
On Thursday 07 June 2001 4:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told me that it needed to update the menus. I told it to keep the current menus,and now all my menus are gone!!! I don't have anything under the application menu. How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. Thanks, try 'update-menus' on debian systems it seems that you will be unable to directly edit the menus via wmakeconf because it includes a menu (from somewhere i don't rember via menu.hook) which is generated from installed packages (thou im _not_ 100% sure on this) have a look in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ adam
HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!
I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told me that it needed to update the menus. I told it to keep the current menus,and now all my menus are gone!!! I don't have anything under the application menu. How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. Thanks,
