Manual: install-menu

install-menu(1)					   Debian GNU/Linux manual				     install-menu(1)

NAME
       install-menu - Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a window manager or a menu-aware application.

DESCRIPTION
       update-menus(1)	computes  the  list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/.
       The task of a menu methods is to generate menus for a specific window manager.  install-menu provides a	generic	 and
       customizable  way  to  do  that. The documentation of the install-menu definition language is available in the Debian
       Menu manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html.

SYNOPSIS
       install-menu [-vh] [--remove] 

       Read menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and generate menu files using the specified menu-method.

       Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu.

OPTIONS
       -h,--help
	      Show the help message and exit.

       --remove
	      Remove the menu files instead of generating them.

       -v,--verbose
	      Output messages about what the program is doing.

COPYING
       install-menu is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later
       version.

AUTHOR
       Written by Joost Witteveen .	 Now maintained by Bill Allombert .

SEE ALSO
       update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html

Debian Project					      28 November 2005					     install-menu(1)