RE: Startmenu sorting
David Mihm (davemann@ionet.net)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:11:23 -0600 (CST)
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Bruce Richardson wrote:
! Talking about permissions, I copied two folders from my root account's
! start menu to /usr/local/shared/afterstep/start and forgot to change the
! permissions (leaving them as 744). When, as a user, I refreshed my start
! menu, I was dumped out of X completely. Going back in, I found I had an
! empty startmenu. OK, I've fixed the permissions but I was surprised, since
! I had intended to experiment with permissions as a way of creating a menu
! tree with some options/categories only visible to certain users/groups:
! that's how I do it on the Netware 4.11 system at work. Well, now I don't
! need to do the experiment, I suppose but I was surprised.
!
! I'm using 1,6.6-3 on RH 5.1 with XFree86 3.3.3-1
In the development version, the share/user directory combo
become usefull for what you wish to do. A ".include" file can be in a
directory (under start) which informs the startmenu to include
something(s) from elsewhere - a much needed functionality.
FYI, HTH
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