Good heavens! I wasn't using Kmenuedit. Iw as doing it manually using mc
and vi. I'll try it with Kmenuedit as root and see what happens.
Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi again Tom,
> >
> > When I was sure that I had all the changes done that I wanted to make I
> > ran that menu update, however nothing changed. All the menus in Afterstep
> > are the same as they were out of the box. I looked at some other menu
> > files that already existed before I made the new ones and called the
> > programs exactly as they appear in the original files, but the new choices
> > don't appear in the menu. I checked the Afterstep HOWTO about editing the
> > menus and followed it to the letter and yet nothing seems to be happening.
> >
> > Is there something I'm missing?
> >
> > --
> > Mark
>
> Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found
> that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work.
> Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system.
>
> >
> > I love my Linux Box...
> > REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
> > Registered Linux user # 182496
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > > Hi list,
> > > >
> > > > I wonder if someone could refresh my memory. I can't seem to remember
> > > > what the command is to update the menus.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > >
> > > jogged my memory Mark, thank you
> > >
> > > I believe it's 'update-menus' there's both a man and info page
> > > for it. I believe it's also the fix for the 'Corel screw up'. I
> > > think it's the basis for the new menu system in Mdk 7.1 also
> > >
> > > --
> > > ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Mark
I love my Linux box...
REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
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