Customizing
your
menu on
Enlightenment
DR16 is
a little
different
from
other
Window
Managers.
Unlike
GNOME or
KDE,
there is
no real
built-in
menu
editor.
You have
to edit
a file
manually,
in a
fashion
similar
to
Fluxbox.
However,
unlike
with
fluxbox,
each
Root
Submenu
has its
own
directory
in
~/.enlightenment/
The
default
menu
directories
are:
Code:
menus_KDE, menus_GNOME, menus_Other, menus_Epplets
or
something
like
that
(this
may
vary).
Then
there
should
be a
file
called
.
Inside
file.menu,
there
should
be lines
similar
to:
Code:
"KDE" "" menu "/home/username/.enlightenment/menus_KDE/index.menu"
In order
to add a
new
menu,
you have
to do
two
things:
1)Create
a new
menu
directory
2)Add an
entry in
~/.enlightenment/file.menu
Now look
inside
the
index.menu
file for
one of
your
menus
that is
populated.
For
example:
Code:
less ~/.enlightenment/menus_KDE/index.menu
As you
can see,
an
index.menu
file
takes
the form
of:
Code:
"Menu Title"
"Submenu 1" "" menu "/path/to/menu1/index.menu"
"Submenu 2" "" menu "/path/to/menu2/index.menu"
"Program 1" "/path/to/icon/file" exec "/command/to/execute"
"Program 2" NULL exec "/command/to/execute"
Note
that you
don't
need to
have an
icon for
all of
your
programs.
If you
don't
have an
icon for
that
particular
program,
then
just
type
NULL,
without
quotes.
So here
is the
full
process
for
adding a
new menu
called
"Utilities",
containing
the
submenus
"Filemanagers"
and
"Terminals":
Code:
mkdir /home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities
mkdir /home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities/filemanagers/
mkdir /home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities/terminals/
nano -w /home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities/filemanagers/index.menu
#inside of nano/vim/etc.#
"Filemanagers"
"Emelfm" NULL exec "/usr/bin/emelfm"
"Rox" NULL exec "/usr/share/rox/rox"
"Gentoo" NULL exec "/home/joe/gentoo-1.1/gentoo"
#save, and exit#
nano -w /home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities/terminals/index.menu
#inside of nano, vim, etc.#
"Terminals"
"Eterm" NULL exec "eterm -t MySpiffE"
"Aterm" NULL exec "/usr/bin/aterm"
"Xterm" NULL exec "xterm"
#save, and exit#
nano -w /home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities/index.menu
#inside of nano, vim, or whatever text-editor you choose#
"Utilities"
"Filemanagers" "" menu "/home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities/filemanagers/index.menu"
"Terminals" "" menu "/home/joe/.enlightenment/menus_Utilities/terminals/index.menu"
#save, exit#
Then
restart
enlightenment,
and
everything
should
be fine
and
dandy.
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