Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:41:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... Message-ID: <20051015204157.GB29903@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <87br1r2me7.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> <ef10de9a0510141908g7a7467f9l763d512ea329e7de@mail.gmail.com> <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org> <87br1r2me7.fsf@nowhere.org>
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On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:51:44AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> 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
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