[techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

[Jeff Frasca]

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On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, J-Mag Guthrie wrote:

> I mean, they're *gone*.  I have to kill wm to quit (mostly, I just don't
> start it, as I know better).  I remember that I was trying to customize it
> and it gave me an error message about the menu, but as this was multiple
> days ago, I have no idea what it was.  I tried to build a simple menu
> (after looking in /usr/doc) so that I could at least run eterm and exit,
> but it keeps not working.  If I can't build a simple one, htf can I make a
> complete/useful one? 

I'd try using the WPrefs.App.  It isn't in your path, so you'll need to
find it -- it might also be in your dock, check to see what's there.  If
it isn't there, and you can get an eterm up and running do this: [*]

locate WPrefs.app/WPrefs | grep GNUstep

That should show you where the application is, from there just run it
from the terminal with the full path from the locate.  There is a menu
editor in there, it will ask you wether or not you want switch over to a
new format.  In this case, you'll want to (you can't use it to edit the
old format).
 

[*] if you can't, do this:
log in to the console, and in bash run these commands:

export DISPLAY=:0.0
eterm &

That should pop an eterm up on the screen.

Jeff

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