[SOLVED] Install from core question on IceWM Menus

[Moderator BobC]

I installed from core and then added xfce and icewm and lightdm, plus a few other applications like geany and meld and gnome games

Then I added upower, pm-utils and uswsusp to try to get the ability to suspend, resume and hibernate. That does work even on my most finnicky Dell M2400 laptop.

In my attempt to get IceWM menus, I installed menu, menu-manager-antix, menu-icewm-antix, desktop-defaults-icewm-antix, desktop-session-antix and menu-xdg. But I cant get apps to add to the menu automatically.

When I add a package at the end it says

Writing Menu: icewm

But even if I restart icewm, the options don’t appear…

What did I miss????

TIA

• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by BobC.

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I believe there is a symlink missing in some xdg folder, applications.xdg or something like that, that is needed for the python script to work and update the menu.

The easiest solution should be to install desktop-defaults-base-antix, as it installs that symlink I mentioned.

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Yes, I think the ~/.icewm did not get populated. The menu isn’t really there, but a link to it exists, normally, and none of that was there.

Thanks for the help…

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Good thing you solved it, BobC.

The package desktop-defaults-icewm-antix has all the iceWM configurations (including the menu), which are located in /etc/skel/.icewm If you copy that .iceWM folder to your home folder, all files will be copied (this is only necessary if you install this package AFTER you have already created your user account).

What I meant was that the Update Menu script needs a “file” (/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu) that is really a symlink to /etc/xdg/menus/desktop-menu.menu. You can manually create this symlink or have it automatically created by installing desktop-defaults-base-antix. All other packages needed for the menu to update have already been mentioned by you.

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