Fw: Re: xfdesktop menu question

[Biju Chacko]

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On Mon, 5 May 2003 12:11:28 +0200, Juraj Ziegler wrote:

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>  Debian, and I assume other distros as well, uses a package called
>  "menu" to dynamically create menus for various window managers. Each
>  package which wants to have a menu entry includes a file with the
>  definition of this entry. The menu package knows how to convert these
>  definitions into a menu-file, that can be used by specific window
>  managers (i.e. one conversion for WindowMaker, another conversion for
>  xfce4, etc.). If a new package is installed, the menu is regenerated
>  automatically. And most window managers keep an eye on the resulting
>  file, and re-read it if it has changed. This way, your menu (provided
>  by the window manager) is always up-to-date.

This is debian specific.

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