XDG Menu's and Awesome

[nankura]

hey guys, as ive said in a phew posts before, im an archlinux crossover. so im still learning. so please forgive these newcomer questions

anyway. archlinux had a package called archlinux-xdg-menu which provided an xdg_menu syntax

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu as you see here theres a very simple guide for xdg-menu in awesome, and i was wondering if theres a way to achieve the same effect in awesome on sabayon, ive tried the xdg-menu package, but i cant figure out the commands

[wolfden]

commands for what exactly?

[nankura]

well thats why i posted the archwiki link, the commands are in there. but ill paste em here

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Awesome
With xdg_menu
$ xdg_menu --format awesome  >>~/.config/awesome/menu.lua

Then edit your rc.lua as shown below
Add a require statment for your new menu.lua file
Add an entry to your awful.menu object for your new menu which calls xdgmenu
...
require("menu")
...

...
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
                                    { "Applications", xdgmenu },
                                    { "open terminal", terminal }
                                  }
                        })
...

this is the function of archlinux-xdg-menu and id like to achieve the same effect with awesome here

[wolfden]

the commands should work the same across all distros

[nankura]

am i missing a package?, because i couldnt find much on an xdg menu, i tried "xdg-menu" but the commands wouldnt work, i guess im trying to find what package allows the functions

[wolfden]

did you install rox-base/xdg-menu ?

You can verify the dependencies here: http://packages.sabayon.org/show/xdg-me ... -show-what

[nankura]

yes i did, and the same commands dont work, it just says the command doesnt exsist

[nankura]

verified all deps today, installed all the extra's, and tried xdg-utils, i still cant figure out why its not working. theres gotta be something im missing, any help will be appreciated

[wolfden]

I haven't have time to test, but for giggles, try running it as root and see if that works or use sudo.

[wolfden]

I finally got to look into this the command is xdg-desktop-menu
See http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-uti ... -menu.html for usage and examples

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sabayonuser@localhost ~ $ xdg-desktop-menu --help
   xdg-desktop-menu - command line tool for (un)installing desktop menu items

Synopsis

   xdg-desktop-menu install [--noupdate] [--novendor] [--mode mode]
   directory-file(s) desktop-file(s)

   xdg-desktop-menu uninstall [--noupdate] [--mode mode] directory-file(s)
   desktop-file(s)

   xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate [--mode mode]

   xdg-desktop-menu { --help | --manual | --version }

Use 'man xdg-desktop-menu' or 'xdg-desktop-menu --manual' for additional info.


might want to look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/awemenugen/ for a simple menu populator