From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 20:42:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C677916A41F for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:42:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB6543D48 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:42:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9FKg3er030921; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:42:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j9FKfvdh030916; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:41:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Glyn Millington Message-ID: <20051015204157.GB29903@thought.org> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org> <87br1r2me7.fsf@nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87br1r2me7.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , Nikolas Britton , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:42:12 -0000 On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:51:44AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Gary Kline writes: > > > I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago > > but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware > > and Gnome suites too? > > Hi Gary, > > I'm running Xfce4 over here on Slackware, and there are no problems > firing up KDE apps as needed. > > A neat thing if you have python aboard is the MenuMaker script > > http://menumaker.sourceforge.net/ > > ,---- > | MenuMaker is utility written entirely in Python that scans through the > | system for installed programs and generates menu for specified X window > | manager. It is by far more superior to existing solutions in terms of > | knowledge base size, maintainability and extensibility, and has a number > | of features that have no counterparts in its class. MenuMaker is intended > | for users of lightweight *NIX graphical desktop environments. > `---- > > But it will scoop up all your KDE and Gnome apps too :-) It certainly > beats churning out menus by hand! It works with Fluxbox, openbox, Icewm, > Windowmaker, Xfce and Xfce4... > Thanks for the tip. This sounds worth checking into. Be nice ' if I can tell menumaker to include things like rclock and asam; and whatever generic, non-wm-specific apps too. Ok, from the online docs, it looks like this script works best with xfce4. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix