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