Sean 'Shaleh' Perry declaimed: > > > > I suppose I could maintain a custom menu section in Blackbox syntax and > > write a script to munge it together with the default Debian menu into > > ~/.blackbox/menu, but is there a better method? > > > > Debian's menu system allows local menu files. You make a .menu directory and > populate it. run update-menus as a user and it should spit out a > ~/blackbox-menu. Move this where you like and point .blackboxrc at it. > > The menu docs in /usr/share/doc/menu will have more on this. > > You could have something like: > > [My menu] > stuff > more stuff > Debian-> > exit Well, after reading the stuff in /usr/doc/menu O(2^n) times, plus your advice, I've succeed; it was much simpler than any of the docs led me to believe. (Of course, having discovered the /usr/doc/menu/html files, I ignored the menu & menufile man pages, my fault.)
How I made it work: I copied /usr/lib/menu/abiword-common to ~/.menu/foo. Then I edited the section label from 'Apps/Editors' to 'MyStuff'. Sure enough, running update-menus as a user added the MyStuff entry to the root of my Debian menu with a (functional!) entry for AbiWord. I'm sure the entry could be stripped down a bit, but the proof of concept is done. BTW, ~/.blackbox/blackbox-menu is created for me automatically because /etc/menu-methods/blackbox specifies genmenu="blackbox-menu" rootprefix="/etc/X11/blackbox/" userprefix=".blackbox/" So I'm good to go, only bummer is that bbconf menu changes are dumped when I run update-menus, so I have to customize by hacking the files. And of course, I have to use the Debian syntax for manual customization instead of BB's. I think I'll also try my munge-script idea to blow the /etc/X11/blackbox-menu into a sub-menu named Debian in a menu file that I maintain in BB syntax. Then I'll be able to use bbconf, and only customizations to the Debian submenu will be lost when I update-menus. Thanks for your help. If there's any interest, I'd be glad to write this stuff up it's working cleanly. Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]