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Posted: Aug. 15 2008,11:13 QUOTE

well I can always just run those from terminal. its getting late ive been at this for a few hours and cant find any info on it. I may just switch back to 3.3 mydsl just put the icon on desktop for me. when I downloaded them initially they were in the menu under my dsl but they dissapeared after I restarted
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Posted: Aug. 15 2008,11:16 QUOTE

Ah - OK, /tmp/mydsl.menu is the folder I couldn't remember - I thought there would already be a file in there, but apparently not.

I cannot remember the format of the menu item file you need - since you were looking to make a menu item for gimp, you could download gimp-1.2.uci from mydsl testing, load it, and then you will have a menu item to copy and modify for gaim (it's self-evident what to modify once you have an example).
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Posted: Aug. 15 2008,11:54 QUOTE

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Ah - OK, /tmp/mydsl.menu is the folder I couldn't remember - I thought there would already be a file in there, but apparently not.

I cannot remember the format of the menu item file you need - since you were looking to make a menu item for gimp, you could download gimp-1.2.uci from mydsl testing, load it, and then you will have a menu item to copy and modify for gaim (it's self-evident what to modify once you have an example).

ok I downloaded opera from the test area. the file wa in the mydls.menu vewing the file it has this:
[exec] (Opera9.25) {/opt/opera925/bin/opera}

I still have no clue how to add that to the menu
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Posted: Aug. 15 2008,12:06 QUOTE

I'm guessing you might have a traditional harddrive install?  I can't see any reason why a typical mydsl extension doesn't automatically create a menu item (it would be in the mydsl submenu) unless there's something messed up in your system.  You shouldn't need to do anything manual with the menu files in /tmp

What desktop are you using? jwm? fluxbox?  Every desktop has its own way of using (or not using) menus.


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Posted: Aug. 15 2008,12:12 QUOTE

Quote (mikshaw @ Aug. 15 2008,12:06)
I'm guessing you might have a traditional harddrive install?  I can't see any reason why a typical mydsl extension doesn't automatically create a menu item (it would be in the mydsl submenu) unless there's something messed up in your system.  You shouldn't need to do anything manual with the menu files in /tmp

What desktop are you using? jwm? fluxbox?  Every desktop has its own way of using (or not using) menus.

im using JWM and I did a full hard drive install. the items do go to the mydsl sub menu but after a restart they dissapear
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