install-menu

Section: Debian GNU/Linux manual (1)
Updated: 20 October 1998
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NAME

install-menu - Used internally by the Debian menu system. It is a program to facilitate the generate the menu-related startup files for the various window managers etc.

DESCRIPTION

When update-menus(1) reads the menu-information, for each installed window manager it will run /etc/menu-methods/wm. Update-menus sends all menu-information of all installed packages to the stdin of those programmes, and it is the task of each respective /etc/menu-methods/wm to generate the window-manager startup files that contain the Debian Menu structure. install-menu is written to facilitate this task. For more information, see the menu documentation (see below).

BUGS

Once processing starts, and translation in various languages is requested, error messages will be printed in a `random' language. This is due to the fact that it doesn't seem possible to locally change the language with GNU gettext. Fortunately nearly all errors are reported before processing starts, so usually the messages are reported in the current LANGUAGE.

COPYING

install-menu is distributed under the GNU General Public License. (GPL 2.0 or greater).

AUTHOR

joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org> less

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