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FVWM-THEMES-MENUAPP(1)           FVWM Utility           FVWM-THEMES-MENUAPP(1)


NAME

       fvwm-themes-menuapp - fvwm-themes menus utility


SYNOPSIS

       fvwm-themes-menuapp --build-menu or --com-mode or--help or --version [
       --site] [ --menu-files [file1,file2,...] ] [ --remove-popup] [
       --com-name name]


DESCRIPTION

       This script is not a user script. It is used by Fvwm-Themes to do
       differrent task concerning menu and other related things.  This scripts
       can do the following:

       Parse and rebuild FVWM configuration files to build a clean menu from
       them: application not in the path are removed, certain unuseful sub
       menus and separator are removed (--build-menus option).

       It can work in a locked way and communicate (via fvwm-themes-com) with
       FvwmScript-Menus or any other programs (--com-mode option). See below
       for the list of query that you can ask to fvwm-themes-menuapp via
       fvwm-themes-com.

       Plan for the future: use an application data base and parse and build
       (Mini)Icon Styles.


OPTIONS

       You must use (only) one of the following four options:

       --help    - show the help and exit

       --version - show the version and exit

       --build-menus - Cause fvwm-themes-menuapp to build clean menus.

       --com-mode Run fvwm-themes-menuapp under the "communication mode".

       --menu-files [file1,file2,...] - files which are read and written by
       fvwm-themes-menuapp. By default, fvwm-themes-menuapp will read
       $FT_DATADIR/themes/default/menus-programs with the --site option.
       Without the --site option fvwm-themes-menuapp will read menus-programs
       and menus-extra  (if found) in the fvwm-themes personal dir:
       $FVWM_USERDIR/themes/personal.  If menus-programs is not found in this
       directory the site's menus-programs file is used (the one under
       $FT_DATADIR). Moreover, if menus-extra is not found, a virtual such
       file is created so that the "personal" menus can be created
       (MenuFvwmPersonal) in it.

       --site - Change the default for the --menu-files option.

       --remove-popup - Remove the sub menu popup that popup empty menu (only
       useful with --build-menus). In fact only certain sub menu popup are
       removed.

       --com-name name - use name as name for communication with
       fvwm-themes-com.  By default, "appmenu" is used, but you should use
       "appmenu-pid" as name where pid is the pid of the program that want to
       talk to fvwm-themes-menuapp so that fvwm-themes-menuapp can exit if
       this program exit and so that fvwm-themes-menuapp can kill the program
       if an internal error happen in fvwm-themes-menuapp. On the other hand,
       if you want to talk with fvwm-themes-menuapp in, say, a terminal you
       must not give an name as "menuapp-an_integer" as name.


COMMUNICATION COMMANDS

       Start fvwm-themes-menuapp as:

               fvwm-themes-menuapp --com-mode [--com-name=menuapp-pid ...]

       Then use fvwm-themes-com as:

               fvwm-themes-com --name menuapp[-pid] [--lock-and-get] --message="Command"

       where Command is one of the following. All this commands are "lock and
       get" but the exit command. A return value of 0 indicate an error.

       menus-list - List of the menus.

       root-menus-list - List of the "root" menus.

       root-menus i - ith root menu.

       menu-items menu_name - List of the items of the menu menu_name.

       item menu_name:i - Information on the ith item of the menu menu_name.

       remove menu_name:i - Remove the ith item of the menu menu_name.

       move-up menu_name:i - Move up the ith item of the menu menu_name.

       move-down menu_name:i - Move down the ith item of the menu menu_name.

       add-or-edit-item X --it='menu_name:i' --t='type' --n='name'
       --mi='menu-icon'    --wd='working dir or window title' where X is
       either A for add or E for edit, see the code for details :)

       selection-items - List of the items in the selection.

       add-item-to-selection menu_name:i - Add the ith item of the menu
       menu_name to the selection.

       remove-sel-item i - Remove the ith item of the selection.

       remove-all-sel-item - Remove all the selection items.

       copy-sel-item menu_name:i:j - Copy the jth item of the selection after
       the ith item of the menu menu_name.

       copy-all-sel menu_name:i - Copy all the selection after the ith item of
       the menu menu_name.

       try - Out put the contents of the files (as soon as possible will run
       the good fvwm-themes-config command).

       save - wrote back the files

       exit - Stop fvwm-themes-menuapp.


USAGE

       When fvwm-themes is installed, fvwm-themes-menuapp is run as:

         fvwm-themes-menuapp --site --build-menus --remove-popup

       FvwmScript-Menus used (and in fact is based on) fvwm-themes-menuapp.
       See this FvwmScript script for examples with the com-mode option.


AUTHORS

       Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis@free.fr>, 5 May 2000.


COPYING

       The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself.  See GNU
       General Public License for details.


BUGS

       Report bugs to fvwm-themes-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

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