NAME

       install-menu  -  Process  a  menu method and generate the menu files for a window manager or a menu-aware
       application.

DESCRIPTION

       update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in /etc/menu-
       methods/.  The  task  of a menu methods is to generate menus for a specific window manager.  install-menu
       provides a generic and customizable way to do that. The  documentation  of  the  install-menu  definition
       language   is   available   in   the   Debian   Menu   manual,   a   local   copy   being   available  in
       /usr/share/doc/menu/html.

SYNOPSIS

       install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method>

       Read menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and generate menu files using the  specified
       menu-method.

       Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu.

OPTIONS

       -h,--help
              Show the help message and exit.

       --remove
              Remove the menu files instead of generating them.

       -v,--verbose
              Output messages about what the program is doing.

COPYING

       install-menu  is  distributed  under  the  term  of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your
       option) any later version.

AUTHOR

       Written by Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org>.  Now maintained by Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

       update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html