Re: Setting up an entry for fluxMenu in, well, the menu

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:19:58PM -0400, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Jerry VanBrimmer wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:35:50PM -0400, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Folks,
> >>
> >>What's the bext way to set up fluxMenu as a menu command? The only way I 
> >>seem to be able to activate it is from a command line when I've CD'd 
> >>into .fluxbox, where I've stashed fluxMenu and its components. If I sit 
> >>outside that directory and try to run it from a command line but using 
> >>the full path name, she no wanna work.
> >>
> >>Any thoughts?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >May I ask, what are you trying to accomplish?
> >
> > 
> >
> >>With best regards,
> >>
> >>Pete Spotts
> >>
> >>
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> I'm merely trying to put an entry in my menu that will activate the menu 
> editor. With an earlier version, all I needed was the executable's name. 
> I don't recall that it was python-based. It ha no .py extension on the 
> file name. But perhaps I need to back up a bit...
> 
> I just upgraded to SuSE 9.3, and added fluxbox 0.9.13. I copied over my 
> backup of .fluxbox, which had my trust old menu in it, along with themes 
> and other stuff. But when I clicked on the fluxmenu entry on my fluxbox 
> menu, nothing happened. So I Googled fluxmenu, found the web site, then 
> grabbed the program. When I altered the menu entry to reflect the new 
> file name fluxMenu.py, it wouldn't activate from the new menu entry. As 
> I mentioned, I can trigger it from the command line as long as I'm in 
> the directory containing fluxMenu.py and its components. All I'm trying 
> to do is to restore my ability to call fM from my fluxbox menu, rather 
> than go the command-line route.

Well, I don'y know about fluxmenu, but I added the folling line to my
menu, and now I can edit the menu with gvim. You add in any editor you
like:

[exec] (Fluxbox Menu Edit) {gvim ~/.fluxbox/menu}

Replace "gvim" with any editor of your choice, and put the line
where efver you want it in your menu.

Hope this helps.

P.S. I Cced this back to the list.

Jerry

> 
> So much for a nutshell explanation ;-)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Pete
> 

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