On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing > list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of > the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told > me that it needed to update the menus. I told it to keep the current > menus,and now all my menus are gone!!! I don't have anything under the > application menu. > > How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any.
Before doing the Debian-to-WindowMaker menu conversion, you need to edit ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu to contain the full path to menu.hook (/etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook). WindowMaker itself is smart enough to look around in several places (complete list in the man page), but wmakerconf isn't. If you don't want to convert your menus, just click over to another tab without answering wmakerconf's question. You can restore the default debian menus by editing ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu to contain "/etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook" and nothing else. (Just "menu.hook" works too, but may cause you to have this same problem again.) If you do convert them, you gain the ability to edit the menus on a per-user basis and use some wmaker enhancements, such as assigning a hotkey to any menu item. The downside is that newly-installed packages will no longer be automagically added to the menus. (Although I consider that an advantage also, as the default behaviour is, IMO, far too inclusive. I prefer to have only the things I use on my menus. YMMV.) -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+