- Here are the instructions that LingApp brings up:
Linguas OS Application Finder - How to Edit your Fluxbox Menu
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Close these instructions after reading these instructions, LingApp will assist you to find an application and add it to your menu.
- (note: I'd like to find a way to enable printing from the zenity text-info dialog…hmmmm.)
In Fluxbox, when you add applications, they will not be automatically added to your fluxbox menu.
LingApp is a handy little script that will help you to find where the applications have bee installed. In most cases, this will be in a location such as
/usr/bin/yourapplication
or
/usr/sbin/application
To add this application to launch from your fluxbox menu, you will have to add it manually. This is easily done by opening the fluxbox menu in a text editor and adding an entry for your application.
Don't forget to save your changes to the menu.
Your fluxbox menu will be in a hidden folder in your /home directory
such as /home/yourname/.fluxbox
You can open it and edit it by entering
medit ~/.fluxbox/menu
in xterm, which will open a text editor and display the menu for editing.
Fluxbox menu entries look like this:
[exec] (name of application) {/path/to/application}
For instance, the menu entry for LingApp is
[exec] (LingApp) {/usr/local/bin/lingapp}
If you don't know where the application is, you can run
whereis 'name of application'
in xterm to find it.
LingApp will do this for you after you close these instructions.
Another means of finding an application on Linguas OS is to use Searchmonkey
which is in your Admin submenu of the Linguas OS Fluxbox desktop menu.
All the same, here is an example, say, if you were trying to find openoffice writer:
You would open xterm or another terminal and do as follows:
user@localhost:~$ whereis oowriter
The terminal would then output this:
oowriter: /usr/bin/oowriter /usr/bin/X11/oowriter /usr/share/man/man1/oowriter.1.gz
You will notice that the first entry is "/usr/bin/oowriter"
This is the command to start openoffice writer (your word processor).
You will see this in the default Linguas OS menu in the "office" submenu.
So, say you have decided to add xmms (winamp for linux) using synaptic, and, now you want to add it to your menu.
You would enter xmms into LingApp, and it would give tell you that xmms is at /usr/bin/xmms.
To add xmms to your fluxbox menu, then, you would add an entry like this
[exec] (xmms) {/usr/bin/xmms}
This would then show up in your menu, and you could start it with a click.
You can add sumbenus, too:
[submenu] (name of submenu)
[exec] (name) {command}
[exec] (name) {command}
[end]
For instance, say you want to add a submenu to your fluxbox menu for multimedia applications, and then add any multimedia applications to that menu.
It might look something like this:
[submenu] (Multimedia)
[exec] (xmms) {/usr/bin/xmms}
[exec] (gxine) {/usr/bin/gxine}
[end]
If you completely mess up the menu, you can run
fluxbox-generate_menu
in xterm to reconstruct something reasonable.
Then you can edit it to customize it again.
Also, I have included an extra copy of the default Linguas OS menu in
/home/yourname/.bktxts
You can move it to /home/yourname/.fluxbox
to restore the default Linguas OS menu.
If you require further assistance, please feel free to ask on the Linguas OS Yahoo! group at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linguasos/
Thanks for using Linguas OS!
Anthony Baldwin
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