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Debian Menu System
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The 'menu' package was inspired by the 'install-fvwm2-menu' program from
the old 'fvwm2' package.  However, 'menu' tries to provide a more
general interface for menu building.  With the 'update-menus' command
from this package, no package needs to be modified for every X window
manager again, and it provides a unified interface for both text- and
X-oriented programs.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Menu from the viewpoint of a user
Chapter 3: The menu file
Chapter 4: What packages with applications should do
Chapter 5: What packages with menu managers should do
Chapter 6: How a user can override the menus
Chapter 7: The internals of the menu package
Chapter 8: Variables and functions in the install-menu scripts

-- The Detailed Node Listing -- Menu from the viewpoint of a user

Section 2.1: How/when do the window manager startup files get created?
Section 2.2: Tuning of the generated window manager startup files
Section 2.3: Optimization of menu tree: hints

The menu file

Section 3.1: Location
Section 3.2: Syntax
Section 3.3: The 'title' field
Section 3.4: The 'needs' field
Section 3.5: The 'section' field
Section 3.6: The 'command' field
Section 3.7: The 'icon' field
Section 3.8: The 'hints' field
Section 3.9: Entries for menu sections.
Section 3.10: Fvwm's task and title bars

What packages with applications should do

Section 4.1: Providing a menu file
Section 4.2: Adding a hook for dpkg in your packages

How a user can override the menus

Section 6.1: Configuring the menus
Section 6.2: Specifying that a menu entry should not be displayed
Section 6.3: Including other files

The internals of the menu package

Section 7.1: The update-menus program
Section 7.2: The install-menu program
Section 7.3: The install-menu config script definitions
Section 7.4: Hints, tree optimization

Variables and functions in the install-menu scripts

Section 8.1: String constants
Section 8.2: Variables
Section 8.2.1: Special variables
Section 8.2.2: Preferred variables
Section 8.2.3: Suggested variables
Section 8.3: Functions

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