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List:       fvwm
Subject:    Re: FVWM: A Linux suggestion...
From:       Joey Hess <joey () kite ! ml ! org>
Date:       1997-01-28 19:22:03
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> Writting window manager startup files is tedious work, and hard
> to do for new users.
> 
> Imagine a script (written for a given Linux distribution) that inserts an
> ``Application'' menu entry for each installed application on a Linux 
> system.
> 
> For Slackware, the script would compare /var/adm/packages/ contents 
> against a list of programs known to behave well when called from a menu
> (perhaps even supplying icons for fvwm-95).

Debian linux has such a thing, it's in a package called menu. Every
package that installes an interactive program adds a menu entry for it in
a database, and calls a program that regenerates rc files for different
window managers (And one text - base menu program that I wrote.) The
result is a hierarchical menu of installed programs, quite handy to use.

For more info, mail joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>.

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#!/usr/bin/perl -i\$q='$q',\$p='$p';eval\$q.\$\^I\n"#  #   joey@kite.ml.org
$q='print"$p$^I\n',$p='#!/usr/bin/perl -i';eval$q.$^I  #          Joey Hess
               "true - do nothing, successfully" - - true (1)


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