IceWM man pages
icewm-menu-fdo - menu generator for .desktop files
icewm-menu-fdo [OPTIONS] [FILENAME]
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.
[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.
-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.
–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 which 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.
This utility is not normally used directly. It is used as the executable in a menuprog entry in a icewm-menu(5).
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
XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIRS are considered as suggested by XDG Base Directory Specification.
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.
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.
“Desktop Entry Specification”, “Desktop Menu Specification”, icewm(1), icewm-menu(5), icewm-preferences(5), icewm-programs(5).
Please report bugs at Github.
See –copying for full copyright notice and copying permissions.
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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