install-menu1
Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a window manager or a menu-aware application.
Usage
install-menu [-vh]
[--remove]
<menu-method>
Read menu
entries
from
stdin
in
update-menus
--stdout
format
and
generate
menu
files
using
the
specified
menu-method.
Normally used
in
menu
method
scripts
as
#!
/usr/bin/install-menu.
Overview
update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/. The task of a menu methods is to generate menus for a specific window manager. install-menu provides a generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation of the install-menu definition language is available in the Debian Menu manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html.
Options
-
-h,--help -
Show the help message and exit.
-
--remove -
Remove the menu files instead of generating them.
-
-v,--verbose -
Output messages about what the program is doing.
Copying
install-menu is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
Releases
14 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 4 times.
--help since Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
--remove since Debian 4.0 (Etch);
--verbose since Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
-h since Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
-v since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).