NAME¶

fvwm-menu-desktop - builds GNOME and KDE menus and style commands for fvwm

SYNOPSIS¶

fvwm-menu-desktop [ --help|-h|-? ] [ --version|-v| -V ] [ --install-prefix DIR ] [ --desktop NAME ] [ --type NAME ] [ --fvwmgtk-alias NAME ] [ --title NAME ] [ --name NAME ] [ --merge-user-menu ] [ --enable-mini-icons ] [ --enable-tran-mini-icons ] [ --mini-icons-path DIR ] [ --png-icons-path DIR ] [ --tran-mini-icons-path DIR ] [ --check-mini-icons PATH ] [ --icon-toptitle micon:law:place:side_pic:color ] [ --icon-title micon:law:place:side_pic:color ] [ --icon-folder micon:law:place ] [ --icon-app micon:law:place ] [ --wm-icons ] [ --enable-style ] [ --enable-tran-style ] [ --icon-style micon:icon:law ] [ --icons-path DIR ] [ --tran-icons-path DIR ] [ --check-icons PATH ] [ --submenu-name-prefix name ] [ --dir DIR ] [ --destroy-type FLAG ] [ --xterm CMD ] [ --lang NAME ] [ --utf8 ] [ --uniconv charset ] [ --uniconv-exec exec ] [ --menu-style name ] [ --no-check-app ] [ --time-limit NUM ]

DESCRIPTION¶

This is a perl script which parses GNOME or KDE menus definitions to build corresponding fvwm or FvwmGtk menus. The script can also build icon and mini-icon style commands for the applications.

USAGE¶

There are a lot of options. However the defaults are, I hope, good enough. If you want the KDE system menu in the menu "Utilities" add the following lines in your .fvwm2rc file:

 ...
AddToMenu Utilities "KDE System Menu" Popup kde-sys
 ...
PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop kde-sys'

For KDE2 you may have to add --utf8 or --uniconv "charset" (see below). Moreover, with KDE2 you can add --merge-user-menu. If you use KDE version 1 (see below for KDE2) and you want mini-icons in the menu and if the KDE mini-icons are in "mini/" relative to your fvwm ImagePath add the option --enable-mini-icons. (if the KDE mini-icons are in some other place use the --mini-icons-path option, e.g., they are in your ImagePath plus --mini-icons-path). If you want to build Icon and MiniIcon style commands for KDE applications, add the option --enable-style. If you want to have the KDE user menu replace "sys" by "user". If you use the KDE menu editor, you may want to pop this menu up dynamically. Then, put this into your .fvwm2rc file (note the destroy-type).

AddToMenu Utilities "KDE User Menu" Popup kde-user
  ...
AddToMenu kde-user
+ DynamicPopupAction PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop kde-user --enable-mini-icons [--destroy-type dynamic] [other options]'

For GNOME it is natural to use FvwmGtk menus. The following example builds "all" GNOME menus (with some mini-icons in the system menu). You need to specify the GNOME installation prefix if it is not /usr (with the option --install-prefix). Moreover, the GNOME icons need to be in your ImagePath and the non .png mini-icons you use for the user-menu need to be in mini/ (if not, use the --png-icons-path option and the --mini-icons-path option, respectively).

Module FvwmGtk
*FvwmGtk: Destroy gnome-all
*FvwmGtk: Menu gnome-all
*FvwmGtk: Title "Gnome Menus"
*FvwmGtk: Separator
*FvwmGtk: Destroy gnome-sys
*FvwmGtk: Submenu "System" gnome-sys
*FvwmGtk: Destroy gnome-user
*FvwmGtk: Submenu "User" gnome-user
*FvwmGtk: Destroy gnome-redhat
*FvwmGtk: Submenu "RedHat" gnome-redhat

PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --type gtk --enable-mini-icons --icon-folder :re --icon-app :re --icon-title :re --icon-toptitle :re'

PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --type gtk --desktop gnome-user --enable-mini-icons'

PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --type gtk --desktop gnome-redhat --enable-mini-icons'

# To obtain the menu above with Alt-button1 on the root window
Mouse 1  R  M  SendToModule FvwmGtk gnome-all

You can specify FvwmGtk alias: Module FvwmGtk MyGnomeMenu. In this case you must pass an additional parameter to fvwm-menu-desktop: --fvwmgtk-alias MyGnomeMenu. Of course you can build fvwm (i.e., no FvwmGtk) GNOME menus. GNOME and KDE2 use PNG icons which are not supported by fvwm menu. However, if you have XPM version of the GNOME or of the KDE2 (mini-)icons you can build fvwm menus and style commands with these icons using the option --enable-tran-mini-icons and --enable-tran-style. The Fvwm Themes package (http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/) contains an utility, fvwm-themes-images, which can convert automatically (with the help of ImageMagick) all GNOME and KDE2 icons to XPM icons. You can build sub menus using the --dir options. However, if you want to use more than one submenu it is better to build the "all" menu and to use the submenu names. See the option --submenu-name-prefix for information on submenu names. Nevertheless, you may put the menu in a tmp file using redirection to see the submenu names. If you think that fvwm-menu-desktop slows your startup too much do not use PipeRead. Instead run fvwm-menu-desktop and redirect the menu to a file and Read that file in your .fvwm2rc file. Another possibility is to use DynamicPopupAction (with fvwm menu), the menu (and the styles) will be built only if you pop up the menu. The following menu creates a "kde-all" menu which contains the user menu which is built each time you pop up "kde-all" and contains a pop up to the system menu which is built only the first time you pop it up.

AddToMenu kde-all
+ DynamicPopupAction FuncRecreateKdeAll

AddToMenu kde-sys
+ DynamicPopupAction PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop \
--desktop kde-sys [options, but --destroy-type d* or n*]'

AddToFunc FuncRecreateKdeAll \
I PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop \
--desktop kde-user --enable-mini-icons --name kde-all \
--destroy-type dynamic [options you like]'
+ I AddToMenu "kde-all" "" Nop
+ I AddToMenu "kde-all" "Kde System%mini/mini-k.xpm%" Popup kde-sys

fvwm-menu-desktop takes into account your $LANG environment variable, which may be overwritten using the --lang option. Hint, if you need a different menu font or item format from the ones used in the default MenuStyle, you may use the --menus-style option to assign a non-default MenuStyle name to menus built by this script. Don't forget to create a new menu style in your .fvwm2rc, using CopyMenuStyle and MenuStyle commands.

OPTIONS¶

Main Options

 

--help

Show the help and exit.

--version

Show the version and exit.

--install-prefix DIR

The prefix of GNOME or KDE installation. Default is /usr for GNOME (other common prefixes: /usr/local, /opt/gnome). For KDE the default is $KDEDIR and you probably do not need to use this option.

--desktop NAME

Use gnome-sys for the GNOME system menu (this is the default), gnome-user for the GNOME user menu, gnome-redhat for the AnotherLevel menu of Red Hat, gnome-mandriva for Mandriva menudrake menus, kde-sys for the KDE system menu and kde-user for the KDE user menu. It may be useful to use KDE or GNOME as a flag with the --dir option.

--type NAME

If NAME is fvwm, a native fvwm menu will be built (this is the default). If NAME is gtk, a FvwmGtk menu will be built.

--fvwmgtk-alias NAME

The name for then FvwmGtk module to use instead of default FvwmGtk.

--title NAME

Define the menu title of the top menu. Default is "Gnome System Menu" for gnome-sys, "Gnome User Menu" for gnome-user, "Gnome Red Hat Menu" for gnome-redhat, "Gnome Mandriva Menu" for gnome-mandriva. For KDE the default is given by KDE itself (or are similar to GNOME title).

--name NAME

Define the menu name of the top menu. Default is the --desktop name if you use one above.

--merge-user-menu

this option tries to merge the user menu with the system menu (gnome-sys or kde-sys, based on the --desktop option) and takes into account changes to the system menu that it is now possible to do in the "user directory" (at least with KDE version 2 menu editor).

 

 

Icons Options

 

By default, fvwm-menu-desktop builds mini-icon free menus. To enable mini-icons use one of the two following options.

 

--enable-mini-icons

This option enables mini-icons in the menu. The desktop hints are used if it is possible (fvwm menu can't use .png icons). Use the --mini-icons-path and the --png-icons-path to specify the good paths. By using the --icon-* options below you can control mini-icons in menus.

--enable-tran-mini-icons

This option applies only to fvwm menus and is useful to build GNOME or KDE2 menus with mini-icons (and if you have XPM version of the GNOME or KDE2 PNG icons). If this option is used any icon hint foo.png is translated to path/foo.xpm where path is determined by the --tran-mini-icons-path option (xpm icons are used as with the previous option).

--mini-icons-path DIR

Define the directory of the .xpm mini-icons (relative to your ImagePath). Default is "mini/".

--png-icons-path DIR

Define the directory of .png icons. Default is "" (i.e., in your ImagePath). Useful only with FvwmGtk menus.

--tran-mini-icons-path DIR

Define the directory of the mini-icons for the --enable-tran-mini-icons option. Default is mini/. It is preferable to give the complete path so that fvwm-menu-desktop can check if the translated mini-icons exists (and the "re" law will apply in a good way).

--check-mini-icons PATH

Where PATH is a list of directories with ":" as a separator. Then, fvwm-menu-desktop checks that the mini icons actually exist in one of these directories (this check is not done for the translated mini icons).

 

Comments

 

To control mini-icons in menus you can use the 4 following options which work similarly.

 

In these options law may be no, dh, re or ow. no means "do not use mini-icon" (this does not affect side pic). dh means "use only the mini-icons GNOME/KDE hints". re means "use mini-icons GNOME/KDE hints but if it is empty use the specified mini-icon". ow means "override the mini-icons GNOME/KDE hints by the specified mini-icon".

 

The path to the specified icons is given by the options --mini-icons-path, --png-icons-path or --tran-mini-icons-path (i.e., you just have to specify the icon, the path is computed). For the sidepic you need to give the complete relative path from your ImagePath.

 

Note that for the fvwm menu (without the --enable-tran-mini-icons option) a .png icon hint is considered as an empty hint, so for the system menu use no=dh and re=ow (you may use .xpm icons in a user menu). If the --tran-mini-icons-path option is set with a complete path, then if the .xpm icon which corresponds to a .png icon hint does not exist, the icon hint is considered as empty.

 

 

place, sidepic and color apply only with fvwm menus. place is either left or up. left means that the icon will be placed on the left of the label. up means that the icon will be placed above the label. sidepic needs to be nothing or an icon (for a picture in the bottom left of the menu). color applies only if a sidepic icon is given and it is the color for the region of the menu containing the sidepic picture.

 

When you use an option below, if an icon, a law ...etc is not specified (i.e., empty) the default is used (e.g, if you want, for an fvwm menu, the icon folder.xpm on the left of the top title and the sidepic fvwm2.xpm on the left of this menu use the following: --icon-toptitle :ow::fvwm2.xpm).

 

--icon-toptitle micon:law:place: sidepic:color

Mini-icon for the top title and sidepic for the top menu. Default for fvwm menus: folder.xpm:no:left::. Default for fvwm menus with --enable-tran-mini-icons: gnome-logo-icon-transparent.xpm:no:left:. Default for gtk menus: gnome-logo-icon-transparent.png:no.

--icon-title micon:law:place:sidepic:color

Use the option below for submenus. Default for fvwm menus: folder.xpm:dh:left::. Default for fvwm menus with --enable-tran-mini-icons: gnome-folder.xpm:dh:left::. Default for gtk menus: gnome-folder.png:dh

--icon-folder micon:law:place:sidepic:color

Mini-icons for pop up item. Default for fvwm menus: folder.xpm:dh:left. Default for fvwm menus with --enable-tran-mini-icons: gnome-folder.xpm:dh:left. Default for gtk menus: gnome-folder.png:dh.

--icon-app micon:law:place

Mini-icon for applications item. Default for fvwm menus: mini-x.xpm:dh. Default for fvwm menus with --enable-tran-mini-icons: gnome-default.xpm:dh. Default for gtk menus: gnome-default.png:dh

 

--wm-icons

This is a shortcut, which can be used if you plan to use icons from the wm-icons package. Currently this is equivalent to: --enable-mini-icons --mini-icons-path '' --icon-toptitle menu/folder-open.xpm:ow --icon-title menu/folder-open.xpm:ow --icon-folder menu/folder.xpm:ow --icon-app menu/utility.xpm:ow.

 

Style Options

 

--enable-style mini-icon:icon:law: addstyle

Build icons and mini-icons style commands for the applications in the built menu.

--style-tran

Only useful with FvwmGtk GNOME or KDE2 menus. Make translation as the enable-tran-mini-icon option but only for style (not for mini-icons menus).

--icon-style mini-icon:icon:law: addstyle

This option is similar to the options --icon-* above. Default law is "dh" (there is no "no" law). Default mini-icon is mini-x.xpm and default icon is x.xpm. You can add a style to all applications with addstyle. If you use the enable-tran-mini-icon options the translated (mini-)icons will be used (if translation is needed) and the default icons are gnome-default.xpm. If you use the --enable-tran-style options above the default icons are gnome-default.xpm. The paths to mini-icons are the same as those for the menus. The path to the icons is computed from the mini-icons path: they are one directory up to the corresponding mini-icons path (so the "defaults" are "" and this is consistent with KDE1 and XPM icons builded by fvwm-themes-images).

--icons-path DIR

Not useful in a normal situation. Define the directory of the icons. Default is one directory up from the path given by the --mini-icons-path option. To set the path to "" you need to use "inpath".

--tran-icons-path DIR

Similar to the above option.

--check-icons PATH

Where PATH is a list of directories with ":" as a separator. Then, fvwm-menu-desktop checks that the icons actually exist in one of these directories (this chack is not done for the translated icons, use a full path in --tran-icons-path to do so).

 

Other Options

 

--submenu-name-prefix NAME

May be useful in some unfortunate cases. By default the name of a sub menu is of the form prefix-adirname-level where prefix is the desktop flag, adirname is the name of the directory of the description of the sub menus (not a complete path) and where level is an integer equal to the number of "cd"s you need to do to go from the root to the directory of the description of the sub menus. You may change the prefix using the present option.

--dir DIR

Set the directory where fvwm-menu-desktop looks for a GNOME/KDE menu description to DIR. The name of the menu is 'desktop-name' and the title is 'desktop' name where 'desktop' is either GNOME or KDE (if fvwm-menu-desktop can't find which desktop is concerned, you can help with the --desktop option) and where 'name' is the name of the right directory of DIR (or a hint of the desktop for the title). Note that if this option is not set, the description directory is install-prefix/share/gnome/apps if --desktop is gnome-sys, $HOME/.gnome/apps if --desktop is gnome-user, $HOME/.gnome/apps-redhat if --desktop is gnome-redhat, $HOME/.gnome/apps-mdk if --desktop is gnome-mandriva, $KDEDIR/share/applink if --desktop is kde-sys and $HOME/.kde/share/applnk if--desktop is sys-user.

--destroy-type flag

flag may be "y(es)", "no", "d(ynamic)". Default is "yes" with fvwm menus, "no" with FvwmGtk menus and dynamic applies only with fvwm menus. If "yes" is used the top menu will be destroyed (DestroyMenu "name"), if "no" is used the top menu will not be destroyed (useful for FvwmGtk menus called by another menu via FvwmGtkSubMenu or to give the same name to two or more menus built by fvwm-menu-desktop). If dynamic is used the menu will be destroyed/recreated (may be useful with DynamicPopupAction). Note that all the built sub menus are always destroyed.

--xterm CMD

Define complete X terminal command to run applications in it if needed. Default is 'xterm -e'.

--lang NAME

Default is the value of $LANG. Useful if your language is not GNOME/KDE compliant and you prefer a non-English compliant language. Also useful if fvwm-menu-desktop gives bad result with your language.

--utf8

Assume that the desktop entries used UTF-8 encoding. This is the case with KDE version 2 and will be probably the case with GNOME version 2. At the present time this option work only if you have perl version 5.6 or better and if your language use latin-1 font. If one of these conditions is not satisfied, then this option is equivalent to --lang en. For other languages/charsets use the --uniconv option. The advantage of this option as compared to the following option is that it is fast.

--uniconv charset

Use iconv, uniconv or internal method to translate utf8 desktop entries into an appropriate "charset". You can choose between one of the supported tools using --uniconv-exec option. iconv comes with glibc >= 2.1.1 and uniconv comes with the utf8 editor yudit. Type "iconv --list" or "man uniconv" for the list of supported charsets. Of course you must also use the appropriate font using the MenuStyle command. Also, $LANG (or --lang xx) must be compatible with the charset. Note, if you don't use an internal method, fvwm-menu-desktop is very slow with this option: you probably need to use the --time-limit option and you should redirect the result into a file and read this file in your fvwm configuration.

--uniconv-exec exec

Where exec is either iconv or uniconv or internal. Allows to choose the program which perform the UTF8 translation in the case of the --uniconv option. The internal method is only available with perl 5.8.0 and better. The default is either internal (if available) or iconv.

--menu-style name

By default the generated fvwm menus use the default MenuStyle (i.e., the MenuStyle "*"). You can specify another MenuStyle name using this option.

--[no]check-app

Either check or don't check that applications to execute are in your path. Default is --check-app.

--time-limit NUM

Change the internal limit (15 seconds) for running this script to NUM seconds, 0 means unlimited running. This limiting may be useful to cut mistakes with the --dir or --install-path options.

 

BUGS¶

This script needs more testing to see if all options work well (note that the script does not check for inconsistency of the given options). If Desktop menu hints are changed the script may not work as expected. I have tested the script with gnome-core-1.0.3, kde-1.1, kde-1.2 and kde-2.0.

AUTHORS¶

Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis@free.fr> Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com> - some changes

COPYING¶

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