On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Timothy Ball wrote: > I've been trying to understand the update-menu system. Perhaps the > parsing bit of my brain is set to off... > > What I would like is a way to include a Custom user menu inside the > generated blackbox menu. > > I find if I edit the menu in /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu w/ > something like this: > [submenu] (UserMenu) {} > [include] (~/.blackbox/menu) > [end] > I get what I want... but I can't see a clear way of adding this to > /etc/menu-methods/blackbox. If anyone could shed some light that'd be > "great".
cp /etc/menu-methods/* ~/.menu-methods man update-menus will get you started with a customized menu system, but may not work, is an all or nothing affair, and doesn't help with tweaking the blackbox menu generator. I would probably ignore the menu building system and write a script that runs when blackbox is fired up; it would copy the default menu to my home dir and insert the custom stuff. ~/.blackboxrc would have "session.menuFile: $HOME/.blackbox/menu" in it, instead of "session.menuFile: /usr/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu". This would be trivial to do if you use startx, but I'm not sure where you would put the code for g|k|xdm logins. - Bruce