NAME

       install-menu  -  Process  a  menu method and generate the menu files for a window manager or a menu-aware
       application.

DESCRIPTION

       update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in /etc/menu-
       methods/. The task of a menu methods is to generate menus for a specific  window  manager.   install-menu
       provides  a  generic  and  customizable  way to do that. The documentation of the install-menu definition
       language  is   available   in   the   Debian   Menu   manual,   a   local   copy   being   available   in
       /usr/share/doc/menu/html.

SYNOPSIS

       install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method>

       Read  menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and generate menu files using the specified
       menu-method.

       Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu.

OPTIONS

       -h,--help
              Show the help message and exit.

       --remove
              Remove the menu files instead of generating them.

       -v,--verbose
              Output messages about what the program is doing.

COPYING

       install-menu is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public  License  version  2,  or  (at  your
       option) any later version.

AUTHOR

       Written by Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org>.  Now maintained by Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

       update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html

Debian Project                                  28 November 2005                                 install-menu(1)