[techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

[J-Mag Guthrie]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:

> Are you using the debian menu utility or do you build your own from
> scratch? I will have to dig up the name of the package but the utility
> makes it so your window manager's application menu is always up to date
> with what's installed (every time I install a new package it updates
> itself and rebuilds the menu).

<snip>

> do a dpkg -s to see if you have it installed, if so, try update-menus

This didn't work.  I can be more specific about what I get now.  I get an
empty menu (just a title that says "Applications").  I killed it again.

> If not, I'd try the wmakerconf/wmprefs way of copying over a default menu
> and then maybe restarting.

Yup, this is my next step, as it were.

- J-Mag
WWTD?