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Mr Green

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xdg-menu for jwm

Looking at arch wiki on xdg-menu it does not mention jwm, however xdg-menu does support menu creation for it. Wanted to know if it is possible to create menu from root-menu (.jwmrc) that updates itself in a similar way to Openbox?

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Mr Green

2ManyDogs

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Re: xdg-menu for jwm

Have you seen this? https://github.com/gapan/xdgmenumaker

There is an example using it in jwm, and there is an AUR package for it.

Don't know about using xdg-menu, but you might ask on the antix forum; they use jwm and some sort of automatic menu generator. So does puppy linux.

And there is this AUR package, but I don't know anything about it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/menugenerator/

Mr Green

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Re: xdg-menu for jwm

Looked at Puppy and they run created menus from .jwm folder. xdg_menu does work (at least from command line) but getting it dynamic is something else. Will look at links ....

Thanks

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2ManyDogs

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Re: xdg-menu for jwm

You could also disable the built-in jwm panel and use lxpanel or fbpanel instead. Both of those panels have auto-updating menus.

Mr Green

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Re: xdg-menu for jwm

This works (although not sure if it is dynamic)

<Menu label="Apps">
<Include>exec: xdg_menu --format jwm --fullmenu</Include>
</Menu>

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