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authorBill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>2011-11-16 12:33:27 +0100
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+.TH install-menu 1 "28 November 2005" "Debian Project" "Debian GNU/Linux manual"
+.SH NAME
+install-menu \- Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a window
+manager or a menu-aware application.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B update-menus(1)
+computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in
+\fI/etc/menu-methods/\fP. The task of a menu methods is to generate menus
+for a specific window manager.
+.B install-menu
+provides a generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation of the
+.B install-menu
+definition language is available in the Debian Menu manual, a local copy being
+available in
+.BR /usr/share/doc/menu/html.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method>
+.PP
+Read menu entries from stdin in \fIupdate-menus --stdout\fP format and generate
+menu files using the specified menu-method.
+.PP
+Normally used in menu method scripts as \fI#! /usr/bin/install-menu\fP.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.IP "-h,--help"
+Show the help message and exit.
+.IP "--remove"
+Remove the menu files instead of generating them.
+.IP "-v,--verbose"
+Output messages about what the program is doing.
+.SH COPYING
+.B install-menu
+is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License version 2, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by Joost Witteveen
+.RI <joostje@debian.org>.
+Now maintained by Bill Allombert
+.RI <ballombe@debian.org>.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR update-menus (1),
+.BR menufile (5),
+.BR /usr/share/doc/menu/html
+