FVWM-THEMES-MENUAPP(1) FVWM Utility FVWM-THEMES-MENUAPP(1)NAMEfvwm-themes-menuapp - fvwm-themes menus utility
SYNOPSISfvwm-themes-menuapp--build-menu or --com-mode or--help or --version [
--site] [ --menu-files [file1,file2,...] ] [ --remove-popup] [
--com-name name]
DESCRIPTION
This script is not a user script. It is used by Fvwm-Themes to do dif‐
ferrent task concerning menu and other related things. This scripts
can do the following:
Parse and rebuild FVWM configuration files to build a clean menu from
them: application not in the path are removed, certain unuseful sub
menus and separator are removed (--build-menus option).
It can work in a locked way and communicate (via fvwm-themes-com) with
FvwmScript-Menus or any other programs (--com-mode option). See below
for the list of query that you can ask to fvwm-themes-menuapp via
fvwm-themes-com.
Plan for the future: use an application data base and parse and build
(Mini)Icon Styles.
OPTIONS
You must use (only) one of the following four options:
--help - show the help and exit
--version - show the version and exit
--build-menus - Cause fvwm-themes-menuapp to build clean menus.
--com-mode Run fvwm-themes-menuapp under the "communication mode".
--menu-files [file1,file2,...] - files which are read and written by
fvwm-themes-menuapp. By default, fvwm-themes-menuapp will read
$FT_DATADIR/themes/default/menus-programs with the --site option.
Without the --site option fvwm-themes-menuapp will read menus-programs
and menus-extra (if found) in the fvwm-themes personal dir:
$FVWM_USERDIR/themes/personal. If menus-programs is not found in this
directory the site's menus-programs file is used (the one under
$FT_DATADIR). Moreover, if menus-extra is not found, a virtual such
file is created so that the "personal" menus can be created (MenuFvwm‐
Personal) in it.
--site - Change the default for the --menu-files option.
--remove-popup - Remove the sub menu popup that popup empty menu (only
useful with --build-menus). In fact only certain sub menu popup are
removed.
--com-name name - use name as name for communication with
fvwm-themes-com. By default, "appmenu" is used, but you should use
"appmenu-pid" as name where pid is the pid of the program that want to
talk to fvwm-themes-menuapp so that fvwm-themes-menuapp can exit if
this program exit and so that fvwm-themes-menuapp can kill the program
if an internal error happen in fvwm-themes-menuapp. On the other hand,
if you want to talk with fvwm-themes-menuapp in, say, a terminal you
must not give an name as "menuapp-an_integer" as name.
COMMUNICATION COMMANDS
Start fvwm-themes-menuapp as:
fvwm-themes-menuapp--com-mode [--com-name=menuapp-pid ...]
Then use fvwm-themes-com as:
fvwm-themes-com --name menuapp[-pid] [--lock-and-get] --message="Command"
where Command is one of the following. All this commands are "lock and
get" but the exit command. A return value of 0 indicate an error.
menus-list - List of the menus.
root-menus-list - List of the "root" menus.
root-menus i - ith root menu.
menu-items menu_name - List of the items of the menu menu_name.
item menu_name:i - Information on the ith item of the menu menu_name.
remove menu_name:i - Remove the ith item of the menu menu_name.
move-up menu_name:i - Move up the ith item of the menu menu_name.
move-down menu_name:i - Move down the ith item of the menu menu_name.
add-or-edit-item X --it='menu_name:i' --t='type' --n='name'
--mi='menu-icon' --wd='working dir or window title' where X is
either A for add or E for edit, see the code for details :)
selection-items - List of the items in the selection.
add-item-to-selection menu_name:i - Add the ith item of the menu
menu_name to the selection.
remove-sel-item i - Remove the ith item of the selection.
remove-all-sel-item - Remove all the selection items.
copy-sel-item menu_name:i:j - Copy the jth item of the selection after
the ith item of the menu menu_name.
copy-all-sel menu_name:i - Copy all the selection after the ith item of
the menu menu_name.
try - Out put the contents of the files (as soon as possible will run
the good fvwm-themes-config command).
save - wrote back the files
exit - Stop fvwm-themes-menuapp.
USAGE
When fvwm-themes is installed, fvwm-themes-menuapp is run as:
fvwm-themes-menuapp--site --build-menus --remove-popup
FvwmScript-Menus used (and in fact is based on) fvwm-themes-menuapp.
See this FvwmScript script for examples with the com-mode option.
AUTHORS
Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis@free.fr>, 5 May 2000.
COPYING
The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU
General Public License for details.
BUGS
Report bugs to fvwm-themes-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
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