Re: Start menu

April Kirby (aprilk@dancris.com)
Sat, 30 May 1998 19:35:50 -0700


>On Fri, 29 May 1998, Vasileios Lourdas wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>Hi  Vasileios
>
>> I checked the http://www.via.ayuda.com/~smw/afterstep/configs/index.html
>> pages, they are very nice for beginners. There is a problem though. In
those
>> pages it is mentioned that the start menu that appears with left click is
set
>> up by removing files and folders under the
~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start
>> folder. However, i have configured my menu through the
>> non-configurable/tmp/startmenu file. The start folder though doesn't
reflect
>> the changes i have made. Why is that so? I login as root and change the
whole
>> users prefs menu, through /usr/share/afterstep...
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>What version are you running?  If it is 1.4.5.55x, then you need to goto
>menu-->Quit-->Update startmenu .  It also depends upon your compile time
>options for #define NO_MAKEMENUSONBOOT and #define NO_MAKESTARTMENU;  if
>you did not change these or used an rpm, then disreguard this pointer
>(i.e. you didn't make compile time changes so this does not matter).
>
Actually in the 1.4.5.55 version there is a directory called start that you
can edit for the start menu. It made it quite nice for me, since I am a
beginner to Afterstep. When you add stuff to it you can then update your
start menu in the usual manner.

April


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