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NAME

       fvwm2-menu-desktop - Reads XDG menu files and creates Fvwm menus

SYNOPSIS

       fvwm2-menu-desktop [ --help|-h ] [ --version ] [ --install-prefix DIR ] [ --desktop NAME ]
       [ --menu-type NAME ] [ --theme  NAME  ]  [  --with-titles|-w  ]  [  --without-titles  ]  [
       --enable-mini-icons  ]  [  --size|-s  NUM  ] [ --mini-icon-dir DIR ] [ --app-icon NAME ] [
       --dir-icon NAME ] [ --title|-t NAME ] [ --insert-in-menu NAME ] [ --get-menus  all|desktop
       ]  [ --set-menus menu_paths ] [ --all-menus ] [ --include-items NAME ] [ --regen-cmd CMD ]
       [ --term-cmd CMD ] [ --dynamic ] [ --menu-error|-e ] [ --verbose|-v ]

DESCRIPTION

       This is a python script which parses XDG menus definitions  to  build  corresponding  fvwm
       menus. This script depends on python-xdg to run.

OPTIONS

       Main Options

       --help Show the help and exit.

       --version
              Show the version and exit.

       --get-menus all|desktop
              Prints  a  space  separated  list of full menu paths found on the system.  all will
              print all menus found on the system except empty  ones.   desktop  will  print  the
              menu(s) that would be generated by the script.

              No menu generation is done.

       --desktop NAME
              Optional  parameter  to  set the NAME of the desktop XDG .menu file(s) to use. This
              option will override any default menus set via  FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config  and  cause
              the  script to find menus in which NAME is a part of the file name.  Possible names
              are: gnome, kde, xfce, lxde, debian, etc.

              This option can be used in conjunction with  --menu-type  to  control  which  .menu
              file(s) are used.

       --menu-type NAME
              Optional  parameter  to  set the NAME of the XDG menu type to use. This option will
              override any default menus set via FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config and cause the script  to
              find menus in which NAME is a part of the file name.  Possible NAME types could be:
              applications, settings, preferences, etc.

              When used in conjunction  with  --desktop,  only  menus  whose  file  name  matches
              '*destkop*menutype*'  are  found.  If  no menus are found, the script exits with an
              error.

       --all-menus
              This option will build all menus found on the system. If used in  conjunction  with
              --desktop or --menu-type this will build all menus matching those settings.

       --install-prefix DIR
              Optional  parameter  to  override  the standard locations for XDG menu definitions.
              Tells fvwm2-menu-desktop to look in DIR for .menu files  instead  of  the  standard
              locations /etc/xdg/menus (and $HOME/.config/menus if it exists).

       --with-titles|-w
              If  this  option is set menus are generated with titles. This is the default.  This
              option can be used to override the FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config default setting.

       --without-titles
              If this option is set menus  are  generated  without  titles.  The  default  is  to
              generate with titles.

       --title|-t NAME
              Option  to  define the menu title NAME of the top menu used by Fvwm's Menu or Popup
              commands. Default is "XDGMenu".

       --include-items NAME
              This option controls if the additional menu items 'Regenerate' and 'Configure'  are
              included  in  the  top  level menu. NAME can be one of regenerate, config, both, or
              none. The default is both.

       --regen-cmd CMD
              This option sets the fvwm command CMD that is run when the menu  item  'Regenerate'
              is selected. The default is "PipeRead `fvwm2-menu-desktop`".

       --term-cmd CMD
              This  option sets the terminal emulator command CMD that is used to to run terminal
              applications in. CMD needs to end with  an  execute  option,  such  as  xterm's  -e
              option,  which  will run the command that is appended to CMD. The default is "xterm
              -e".

              Debian specific: Per Debian policy, default changed to "x-terminal-emulator -e"

       --dynamic
              This option is to be used with creating dynamic menus using DynamicPopUpAction  and
              DynamicPopDownAction.  This adds a 'recreate' to the DestroyMenu command on the top
              level menu so those actions are not Destroyed when the menu is regenerated.

       --insert-in-menu NAME
              Option to insert generated menu(s) IN a menu NAME  (its  top  title).  This  option
              makes it so the top level menu is not Destroyed and the items are added to the end.

              Note  menus  regenerated  with this option will append the menu items at the end of
              the existing menu. Each time the menu is regenerated new menu items appear giving a
              growing  menu  of  duplicate  items.   You  have to regenerate the whole menu via a
              function or restart fvwm. See EXAMPLES below for some solutions.

       --set-menus menu_paths
              Generates all menus listed in a space separated list  of  full  menu  paths.   This
              option overrides any defaults and --desktop|--menu-type settings.

       --menu-error |-t
              If  this  option  is present and python-xdg is not found, the script will print the
              error in the generated menu. Used in the default-config.

       --verbose
              Enables additional information printouts on STDERR.

       Icons Options

              By  default,  fvwm2-menu-desktop  builds  menus  without  mini-icons.   To   enable
              mini-icons use the following options.

              If  ImageMagick  is  installed  on  the system, the script will resize and copy the
              icons to $FVWM_USERDIR/.icons. This can take awhile. You should be prepared to wait
              the  first  time  you  generate  the  icons. Once the icons have been generated the
              script should run faster. If it is still to slow using icons, see EXAMPLES for ways
              to limit how often the menu is generated to speed things up.

       --enable-mini-icons
              This  option enables mini-icons in the menus. If set, 24x24 mini-icons are used. If
              the specified icon isn't that size it will be converted if ImageMagick is installed
              and  saved  in $HOME/.fvwm/icons or to the directory specified with --mini-icon-dir
              option. Otherwise  no  icon  appears  in  the  menu  for  that  entry.   With  most
              distributions,  all  the  menu  entries  will  have  mini-icons  appropriate to the
              application.

       --theme NAME
              Defines  the  used  icon  theme.  Default  is  gnome  but  all  others   found   in
              /usr/share/icons  could  be  used except the hicolor theme because it's the default
              fallback theme if no icon is found.

       --size|-s NUM
              If --enable-mini-icons is used  the  size  of  the  icons  can  changed  with  this
              parameter. Default is 24.

       --mini-icon-dir DIR
              When  the  right  size  mini-icon isn't available, fvwm2-menu-desktop creates icons
              with the right size in $HOME/.fvwm/icons.  If you don't want  to  use  the  default
              directory, $HOME/.fvwm/icons, use this option to specify a different folder.

       --app-icon NAME
              Sets  the  default  application  icon  if  no  others are found. Default is 'gnome-
              applications'.

       --dir-icon NAME
              Sets the default directory icon if no  others  are  found.  Default  is  'gnome-fs-
              directory'.

USAGE

       fvwm2-menu-desktop  outputs  XDG .menu files in the syntax of fvwm menus. When fvwm2-menu-
       desktop is run with no options, it will load  defaults  from  the  FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config
       file (see below) then search your system for suitable menu file(s). To see which menus are
       available on your system run:

              fvwm2-menu-desktop --get-menus all

       If no menus are found you may not have any installed on your system. By default menus  are
       stored  as  *.menu  files  in  /etc/xdg/menus,  $HOME/.config/menus or the location set in
       $XDG_MENU_PREFIX. You can use --install-prefix to  specify  another  location  search  for
       menus.

       Though  a  combination  of  command line options and the FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config settings,
       fvwm2-menu-desktop can generate any combination of the menus found. To get a list of  what
       menu(s) would be generated use the --get-menus desktop option. The following will list all
       menus generated if fvwm2-menu-desktop was run with no options.

              fvwm2-menu-desktop --get-menus desktop

       fvwm2-menu-desktop determines which menu(s) to generate as follows

              If no config file is found, all menus will be weighted and the script will generate
              the best (highest weight) menu found.

              If  a  config  file  is  found  (and override options are not used) the script will
              generate all menus selected in FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config.

              --desktop,  --menu-type,  --set-menus  and  --all-menus  will  override  any  menus
              selected in FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config.

              --desktop   and   --menu-type   will   only   include   menus  whose  name  matches
              '*desktop*menutype*'. If used with --all-menus, all matching menus  are  generated.
              If used without --all-menus, only the highest weighted menu is generated.

              --set-menus generates menus from the list of full path menu file names.

              --all-menus by itself will generate all menus found.

       By  default  fvwm2-menu-desktop will generate a menu whose top level name is "XDGMenu". To
       tell fvwm to read the output of fvwm2-menu-desktop to create  the  menu  XDGMenu  add  the
       following to your fvwm config file:

              PipeRead 'fvwm2-menu-desktop'

       Warning:  Depending on the options used this command may be slow and fvwm will pause until
       this command is complete. See EXAMPLES below for more details and possible workarounds.

       Once the menu is generated you can open the menu by using the command "Menu XDGMenu".  You
       can also include this in the MenuFvwmRoot menu by:

              AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "XDG Menu" Popup XDGMenu

       fvwm2-menu-desktop  can  be configured though both command line options and a FvwmForm GUI
       to customize the menu(s) that get generated.

GUI

       FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config is a FvwmForm interface that can be used to configure the defaults
       for  fvwm2-menu-desktop.  You  can  access this from the "Configure" item in the top level
       menu that is generated or run the following from within FvwmConsole

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

       This form can be used to select which menu(s) get generated by default along with  setting
       many  (but not all) of the available options. When you click "Save Settings" the form will
       write a config file located  at  $FVWM_USERDIR/.FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config  that  fvwm2-menu-
       desktop will parse for defaults when run.

       See the help inside of FvwmForm-XDGMenu-Config for more information.

EXAMPLES

       There  are  many ways to setup when fvwm runs fvwm2-menu-desktop to generate the menu. One
       method is to just generate the menu when fvwm loads and then use the GUI  config  tool  to
       change  any  options.   To  do  this you only need to add the following to the fvwm config
       file:

              AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "XDG Menu" Popup XDGMenu
              PipeRead 'fvwm2-menu-desktop'

       The menu is created once when fvwm loads. Since menu creation can sometimes be slow,  this
       could cause fvwm to take longer to load than one wants.

       The  menu is only generated when fvwm starts. If software is installed or removed you will
       have to select the 'Regenerate' option to rebuild the menu.

       One way to speed things up is to save the menu in a file and only generate the  menu  when
       'Regenerate'  is  selected. To do this use --regen-cmd to call a custom function and write
       the menu to a file using a command like

              fvwm2-menu-desktop --regen-cmd XDGRegen > $FVWM_USERDIR/.XDGMenu

       Then add the following to the fvwm config file to define the function XDGRegen. The second
       to last line will generate the menu if the menu file doesn't exist when fvwm starts.

              DestroyFunc XDGRegen
              AddToFunc XDGRegen
              + I PipeRead 'fvwm2-menu-desktop --regen-cmd XDGRegen > \
                  $[FVWM_USERDIR]/.XDGMenu; echo "Nop"'
              + I Read $[FVWM_USERDIR]/.XDGMenu

              Test (!f $[FVWM_USERDIR]/.XDGMenu) XDGRegen
              Read $[FVWM_USERDIR]/.XDGMenu

       Besides creating a top level menu, fvwm2-menu-desktop can insert the menu into an existing
       menu using the --insert-in-menu option. For example one could create the menu MenuFvwmRoot
       and include the XDG items at the end.

              DestroyMenu MenuFvwmRoot
              AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "Fvwm" Title
              + "Item1" Action1
                ...
              + "ItemN" ActionN
              + "" Nop
              PipeRead 'fvwm2-menu-desktop --insert-in-menu MenuFvwmRoot'

       In this case the menu items are inserted at the end of the MenuFvwmRoot menu.  If no items
       are in the menu, this menu becomes MenuFvwmRoot. The problem here is,  that  you  have  to
       restart  fvwm  or  rebuild  the  whole  menu to Regenerate it because menu items cannot be
       removed.  To do this you could use a function like

              DestroyFunc XDGRegen
              AddToFunc XDGRegen
              + I DestroyMenu MenuFvwmRoot
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "Fvwm" Title
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "Item1" Action1
                ...
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "ItemN" ActionN
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "" Nop
              + I PipeRead 'fvwm2-menu-desktop --insert-in-menu MenuFvwmRoot \
                            --regen-cmd XDGRegen'

       Fvwm  can   also   create   menus   dynamically   by   using   DynamicPopUpAction   and/or
       DynamicPopDownAction.  These  commands  when used with a Menu will run a Function when the
       menu is opened. For example one could create the menu XDGMenu when it is opened using

              AddToMenu XDGMenu "XDGMenu" Title
              + DynamicPopUpAction PipeRead 'fvwm2-menu-desktop'

       This will create the menu when it is opened. One issue here is it  will  only  create  the
       menu  the  first  time  it is opened, and you still have to Regenerate the menu to see any
       changes. To create the menu each time it is open used the --dynamic option

              AddToMenu XDGMenu "XDGMenu" Title
              + DynamicPopUpAction PipeRead 'fvwm2-menu-desktop \
                                   --dynamic --include-items config'
              + DynamicPopDownAction DestroyMenu recreate XDGMenu

       This will now Destroy the menu when it closed so it can be rebuilt the  next  time  it  is
       opened.   The   recreate   flag   doesn't   completely   destroy   the  menu  keeping  the
       DynamicPopUpAction and DynamicPopDownAction actions.   The  --dynamic  flag  includes  the
       recreate option in the generated menus.

       To  insert  a  menu into MenuFvwmRoot and still be dynamic you need to use a function that
       generates the whole menu. For example

              DestroyFunc GenRootMenu
              AddToFunc GenRootMenu
              + I DestroyMenu recreate MenuFvwmRoot
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "Fvwm" Title
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "Item1" Action1
                ...
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "ItemN" ActionN
              + I AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "" Nop
              + PipeRead `fvwm2-menu-desktop --insert-in-menu MenuFvwmRoot \
                         --include-items config`

              AddToMenu MenuFvwmRoot "Fvwm" Title
              + DynamicPopUpAction GenRootMenu
              + DynamicPopDownAction DestroyMenu recreate MenuFvwmRoot

BUGS

       The whole process of creating menus from files is slow.   Otherwise  report  bugs  to  the
       fvwm-workers mailing list <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org>.

AUTHORS

       This    script    is    based    on    fvwm-xdg-menu.py   written   by   Piotr   Zielinski
       (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pz215/) who assigned Licence: GPL 2 Date: 03.12.2005.

       The script was reworked to replace the existing fvwm-menu-desktop perl script by the fvwm-
       workers.

COPYING

       The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU General Public License
       for details.