I've installed RedHat 8.0 on my system, and I've decided to finally wean myself from fvwm2 and use the default setup. I've been poking around trying to figure out how to add entries to the panel menus. There doesn't seem to be a gui interface to do it. (There is a gui to add stuff to the desktop and to the panel, but not the menus.) I suspect that the secret handshake is contained in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ directories, but I haven't found the secret decoder ring to help figure out the right way to do this. My main motivation is to add some favorite applications to the menus for my family. They are not about to use the command line. Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA, Bill
hi, did you try $ gmenu and # gmenu best wishes, baris On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:04:38 -0500 (EST) Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I've installed RedHat 8.0 on my system, and I've decided to finally wean myself from fvwm2 and use the default setup. I've been poking around trying to figure out how to add entries to the panel menus. There doesn't seem to be a gui interface to do it. (There is a gui to add stuff to the desktop and to the panel, but not the menus.) I suspect that the secret handshake is contained in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ directories, but I haven't found the secret decoder ring to help figure out the right way to do this.
My main motivation is to add some favorite applications to the menus for my family. They are not about to use the command line.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
TIA, Bill
_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Baris, I can't find any gmenu command or file in the Red Hat distro. Thanks, Bill On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Baris Hasdemir wrote:
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:20:41 -0500 From: Baris Hasdemir <penguen@hasdemir.com> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] gnome desktop menus?
hi,
did you try $ gmenu and # gmenu
best wishes, baris
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:04:38 -0500 (EST) Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I've installed RedHat 8.0 on my system, and I've decided to finally wean myself from fvwm2 and use the default setup. I've been poking around trying to figure out how to add entries to the panel menus. There doesn't seem to be a gui interface to do it. (There is a gui to add stuff to the desktop and to the panel, but not the menus.) I suspect that the secret handshake is contained in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ directories, but I haven't found the secret decoder ring to help figure out the right way to do this.
My main motivation is to add some favorite applications to the menus for my family. They are not about to use the command line.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
TIA, Bill
_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
hi again, This is strange because gmenu is one of the core programs of gnome. But you can do this way too. those entries on the panel are some .desktop files and here is what Internet/Galeon.desktop entry has in it: penguen@penguen:~$ cat /usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet/galeon.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Galeon Comment=Galeon Web Browser Exec=galeon Terminal=0 Type=Application Icon=galeon.png penguen@penguen:~$ Name and Exec entries are enough, though. simply creating a .desktop file in the directory (in my case /usr/share/gnome/apps) will put a new entry on the panel menu. best wishes, baris On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:40:21 -0500 (EST) Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
Baris,
I can't find any gmenu command or file in the Red Hat distro.
Thanks, Bill
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:47:48PM -0500, Baris Hasdemir wrote:
hi again,
This is strange because gmenu is one of the core programs of gnome.
Of gnome v1, yes - not of gnome v2. I actually haven't yet found a way to get equivalent functionality out of gnome v2... -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Engineer, Part time Linux/Perl guy | There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader. (Unknown source)
participants (3)
-
Baris Hasdemir -
Bill Mills-Curran -
Frank Sweetser