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.