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6 icewm-menu-fdo - menu generator for .desktop files
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9 icewm-menu-fdo [FILENAME]
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12 icewm-menu-fdo introduces the XDG menu descriptors (aka FreeDesktop.Org
13 .desktop files) to the menus of IceWM window manager.
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17 When provided with the optional FILENAME argument that is the name
18 and location of a .desktop file, icewm-menu-fdo will open it and
19 launch the application using the "Exec" line from the desktop file.
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22 This program doesn't use command line options. In future, it might
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27 This utility is not normally used directly, but is used as the
28 executable in a menuprog entry in a menu.
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31 The following line in a icewm-menu(5) file will dynamically generate a
32 comprehensive set of menus for easy access to .desktop files.
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34 menuprog "Desktop Apps" folder icewm-menu-fdo
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37 XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIRS are considered as suggested by XDG Base
38 Directory Specification.
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41 icewm-menu-fdo complies roughly to the XDG .desktop file and menu
42 specification, see "Desktop Entry Specification", Version 1.2alpha,
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47 The icewm-menu-fdo program is only built when the icewm(1) package is
48 configured with the --enable-menus-fdo option, which requires the
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52 "Desktop Entry Specification", "Desktop Menu Specification", icewm(1),
53 icewm-menu(5), icewm-preferences(5), icewm-programs(5).
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56 Please report bugs at <https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues>.
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59 Brian Bidulock <mailto:bidulock@openss7.org>.
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61 See --copying for full copyright notice and copying permissions.
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64 IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See
65 the COPYING file in the distribution or use the --copying flag to
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