NAME

icewm-menu-fdo - menu generator for .desktop files

SYNOPSIS

icewm-menu-fdo [OPTIONS] [FILENAME]

DESCRIPTION

icewm-menu-fdo generates a menu for the IceWM window manager from XDG menu descriptors (aka FreeDesktop.Org .desktop files). By including this in the icewm-menu(1), the system applications become available in the icewm start menu.

ARGUMENTS

• [FILENAME]

  The optional FILENAME argument is the location of a .desktop file. When given, icewm-menu-fdo launches the application using the Exec line from the desktop file.

OPTIONS

• -g, –generic

  Include the generic name in parentheses in the title of prog entries.

• –seps

  Print a leading and a trailing separator.

• –sep-before

  Print a leading separator.

• –sep-after

  Print a trailing separator.

• –no-sep-others

  Don’t print the Other category last.

• –no-sub-cats

  Don’t nest subcategories in submenus.

• -o, –output=FILE

  Write the output to FILE.

• -t, –terminal=NAME

  Use NAME to start a terminal emulator that supports the ‘-e’ option.

• –flat

  Display apps from all categories in one level with the title containing the category information as prefix.

• -F sep, –flat-sep=sep

  When used with --flat, the specified character sequence is used as separator between the section titles.

• -m filter, –match=filter

  Specifies a filter to show only apps that contain this as substring within their title.

• -M filter, –imatch=filter

  Like --match but applied with any letter case.

• –match-sec

  Apply the filter from --match or --imatch to both, apps and section titles.

• –match-osec

  Apply the filter from --match or --imatch to only to section titles.

• -h, –help

  Print a brief usage statement to stdout and exit.

• -V, –version

  Print the program version to stdout and exit.

• -C, –copying

  Print copying permissions to stdout for the program and exit.

USAGE

This utility is not normally used directly. It is used as the executable in a menuprog entry in a icewm-menu(5).

EXAMPLES

The following line in a icewm-menu(5) file will dynamically generate a comprehensive set of menus for easy access to .desktop files.

menuprog "Desktop Apps" folder icewm-menu-fdo

ENVIRONMENT

XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIRS are considered as suggested by XDG Base Directory Specification.

TERMINAL may define a terminal emulator that supports the ‘-e’ option.

CONFORMING TO

icewm-menu-fdo complies roughly to the XDG .desktop file and menu specification, see “Desktop Entry Specification”, Version 1.2alpha, 2015-03-06 and “Desktop Menu Specification”, Version 1.1-draft, 31 March 2011.

CAVEATS

The icewm-menu-fdo program is only built when the icewm(1) package is configured with the –enable-menus-fdo option, which requires the glib2-dev package dependency.

SEE ALSO

Base Directory Specification, Desktop Entry Specification, Desktop Menu Specification, icewm(1), icewm-menu(5), icewm-preferences(5), icewm-programs(5).

BUGS

Please report bugs at Github.

AUTHOR

Eduard Bloch.

See –copying for full copyright notice and copying permissions.

LICENSE

IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the COPYING file in the distribution or use the –copying flag to display copying permissions.

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