Convert fluxbox menu file to icewm

Forum: Window Mangers
Topic: Convert fluxbox menu file to icewm
started by: bloovis

Posted by bloovis on Oct. 12 2005,12:45

I recently became a happy convert to DSL; it made my ancient Thinkpad (233 MHz CPU and 96 MB RAM) seem like a new machine.

Anyway, I did a hard disk install and switched to icewm, which I prefer to fluxbox and which is still pretty lightweight. I came across a script by TyphoonMentat in the deprecated extensions forum to convert fluxbox menu files to icewm, but it was a little buggy. Here is a rewrite. Use it like this:

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mv .icewm/menu .icewm/menu.old
./convertmenu.pl .fluxbox/menu >.icewm/menu

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Script to convert fluxbox menu to icewm
my @stack;
my ($type, $label, $arg);

my $line = 0;
while (<>) {
$line++;
next if (/\s*#/);
if (/\[(.+)\]\s*$(.+)$\s*\{(.+)\}/) {
$type = $1;
$label = $2;
$arg = $3;
} elsif (/\[(.+)\]\s*$(.+)$/) {
$type = $1;
$label = $2;
$arg = "";
} elsif (/\[(.+)\]/) {
$type = $1;
$label = "";
$arg = "";
} else {
next;
}
if ($type eq "submenu") {
if ($label eq "Styles") {
push(@stack, "");
} else {
print("menu \"$label\" folder\ {\n");
push(@stack, "}\n");
}
} elsif ($type eq "end") {
if ($#stack >= 0) {
print(pop(@stack));
} else {
print("# mismatched [end] at line $line!\n");
}
} elsif ($type eq "exec") {
print("prog \"$label\" \"-\" $arg\n");
} elsif ($type eq "begin") {
push(@stack, "");
}
}

Posted by wageslave on Nov. 19 2005,19:52

I may be doing something pretty stupid here...

So i tried to follow these instructions. I entered the first line

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mv .icewm/menu .icewm/menu.old

and got this response

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mv: unable to rename '.icewm/menu': No such file or directory

I then had a look around and found that ice wm was in /etc/x11. So I tried

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mv etc/x11/icewm/menu etc/x11/icewm/menu.old

and that didn't work either. I messeda roud a bit with '.' and '/' in case leaving them out was the problem but that did't get me anywhere.

I know that I'm probably making some really basic silly mistake thru ignorance but I'd appriciate help from anyone who can offer it.

Posted by crusadingknight on Nov. 19 2005,23:40

Quote (Guest @ Nov. 19 2005,14:52)

I may be doing something pretty stupid here...

So i tried to follow these instructions. I entered the first line

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mv .icewm/menu .icewm/menu.old

and got this response

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mv: unable to rename '.icewm/menu': No such file or directory

I then had a look around and found that ice wm was in /etc/x11. So I tried

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mv etc/x11/icewm/menu etc/x11/icewm/menu.old

Yeah. Uh... you're trying to back up something which you haven't created yet, which is absolutely pointless.

Posted by wageslave on Nov. 20 2005,13:49

well i knew it was probably something pretty stupid!

But I still don't know what i should actually do...

Posted by crusadingknight on Nov. 20 2005,17:34

Wel, since you haven't installed the icewm directory yet:

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cp -R /etc/x11/icewm/ ~/.icewm
./convertmenu.pl ~/.fluxbox/menu >~/.icewm/menu

All there is to it; the only reason

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mv .icewm/menu .icewm/menu.old

was in there was to keep people from overwriting a customized icewm menu.