Re: FVWM: New Fvwm-Nightshade release 0.6.5 is out!

[Thomas Funk]

Hi Dominique,

>I think some additional steps are needed in order to make the
>applications menu to work. On gentoo, fvwm-menu-desktop is just

 

>installed at the same time than fvwm, but no configuration at all is
>made.

It works only with fvwm 2.6.6 and only from CVS. the latest snapshot

is buggy - fvwm-menu-desktop-config.fpl isn't available there. This file

creates the config gui. You can test it within a Fvwm-Console:

Module FvwmPerl -l fvwm-menu-desktop-config.fpl

>I think it can be the same issue with most distributions at the
>exception of Debian, which have always been talking care of the menu
>integration in all wm/dekstops.

I have tested it on several distributions - Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse, 

Debian and Ubuntu and on all it works correctly.

 

>If I run 'fvwm-menu-desktop', it output nothing.
>If I run the examples in the man page and try other options, fvwm
>tell me they are obsolete.
>
>$ fvwm-menu-desktop
>$ fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop kde-user --enable-mini-icons WARNING:
>Argument "desktop" obsolete. Ignored.
>$ fvwm-menu-desktop --type gtk WARNING: Argument "type" obsolete.
>Ignored.

That's right. These are options from the old perl script. Which version is installed?

$ fvwm-menu-desktop --version

If it is 2.0 or higher than one thing could be ...

Have a look in /etc/xdg/menus. Are there any .menu files especially applications.menu?

If not than it is clear that no menu appears. These files are mandatory. Without them

nothing happens. If fvwm-menu-desktop-config.fpl is available and you see no menu

listed at the top of the gui ...

 

What output comes with this command:

$ fvwm-menu-desktop --insert-in-menu menuRoot

Best,

Thomas
 

--
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 um 14:18 Uhr
Von: "Dominique Michel" <dominique.mic...@vtxnet.ch>
An: "Thomas Funk" <t.f...@web.de>
Betreff: Re: FVWM: New Fvwm-Nightshade release 0.6.5 is out!

Le Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:38:02 +0200,
Thomas Funk <t.f...@web.de> a écrit :

>

Hi,

I try it with the code from the git. I hope it is in sync.

I get the same problem than before with the application menu: it
doesn't exist, all I can do is to launch its configuration script,
which remain desperately empty.

The only error or warning messages I get are:

[FvwmForm-Form][FlocaleGetFontSet]: (9x15bold) Missing font charsets:
ISO8859-2, ISO8859-3, ISO8859-4, ISO8859-5, KOI8-R, ISO8859-7,
ISO8859-9, ISO8859-13, ISO8859-14, ISO8859-15, JISX0208.1983-0,
KSC5601.1987-0, GB2312.1980-0, JISX0201.1976-0, ISO10646-1
[FNS-BaseSetup][FlocaleGetFontSet]: (9x15bold) Missing font charsets:
ISO8859-2, ISO8859-3, ISO8859-4, ISO8859-5, KOI8-R, ISO8859-7,
ISO8859-9, ISO8859-13, ISO8859-14, ISO8859-15, JISX0208.1983-0,
KSC5601.1987-0, GB2312.1980-0, JISX0201.1976-0, ISO10646-1 ls:
impossible d'accéder à /home/dom/.fvwm-nightshade/themes/: Aucun
fichier ou dossier de ce type ls: impossible d'accéder
à /home/dom/.fvwm-nightshade/layouts/: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce
type

I think some additional steps are needed in order to make the
applications menu to work. On gentoo, fvwm-menu-desktop is just
installed at the same time than fvwm, but no configuration at all is
made.
I think it can be the same issue with most distributions at the
exception of Debian, which have always been talking care of the menu
integration in all wm/dekstops.

If I run 'fvwm-menu-desktop', it output nothing.
If I run the examples in the man page and try other options, fvwm
tell me they are obsolete.

$ fvwm-menu-desktop
$ fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop kde-user --enable-mini-icons WARNING:
Argument "desktop" obsolete. Ignored.
$ fvwm-menu-desktop --type gtk WARNING: Argument "type" obsolete.
Ignored.

Best,
Dominique

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