Re: Saving menu settings in AfterStep

Andrew Sullivan (asullivan@sprint.ca)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 13:32:56 -0400 (EDT) 

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jeff Alami wrote:

> >
> > Jeff Alami wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm having trouble saving the menu settings I change. For example,
> > > suppose I create a new menu item called NEdit in
> > > ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start. It looks OK when I restart
> > > AfterStep, but when I restart X, the change is gone! Any ideas?
> 
> I did a "chmod a-w" and it still deletes the files when I startup X.
> Note this is only with files in ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start and
> associated subdirectories.

Are you updating?  Not every version works this way, but on Start/Quit
there should be three update options.  Updating your startmenu is
necessary for the changes to stick.  Otherwise, the menu gets
re-generated.

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