[H-GEN] Debian Menus

[Mark Suter]

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Anthony,

> I want to add an item to the default Debian Menu, How do I do this?

Debian menus are created by running update-menus(1) which
combines menufile(5) files from /usr/lib/menu/ and ~/.menu/ to
produce configurations for your window manager.

For example, to add your custom application "foobar" (a really
cool X11 arcade game you wrote during lunch) to everyone's menus,
do something like the following.

    # cat > /usr/lib/menu/fooobar
    ?package(local.foobar):needs="x11" section="Games/Arcade"\
	    title="Foobar" longtitle="Really cool X11 arcade game"\
	    command="/usr/bin/X11/foobar"
    # update-menus
    # for user in tom dick harry ; do su - $user -c update-menus ; done

Take a look at those man pages for all the gory details.

Yours sincerely,

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