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This module lets you create text menus. It is possible to control the menu using Inter-process messaging.
Note: With version 3.5.0, the way to open and close the menu levels has
changed.
In particular, if you use menu-open-*
or menu-close
in your menu module, you
should update the module to use the new action names.
A guide for this can be found
here.
Basic settings
The menu module uses
actions for
opening and closing menu levels.
For example to open level N, the action is open.N
, to close the menu, the
action is called close
. Please read the link above to learn how to construct
the full action string.
[module/menu-apps]
type = custom/menu
; If true, <label-toggle> will be to the left of the menu items (default).
; If false, it will be on the right of all the items.
expand-right = true
; "menu-LEVEL-N" has the same properties as "label-NAME" with
; the additional "exec" property
;
; Commands will be executed using "/bin/sh -c $COMMAND"
menu-0-0 = Browsers
menu-0-0-exec = #menu-apps.open.1
menu-0-1 = Multimedia
menu-0-1-exec = #menu-apps.open.2
menu-1-0 = Firefox
menu-1-0-exec = firefox
menu-1-1 = Chromium
menu-1-1-exec = chromium
menu-2-0 = Gimp
menu-2-0-exec = gimp
menu-2-1 = Scrot
menu-2-1-exec = scrot
Additional formatting
; Available tags:
; <label-toggle> (default) - gets replaced with <label-(open|close)>
; <menu> (default)
; If expand-right is true, the default will be "<label-toggle><menu>" and the
; other way around otherwise.
; Note that if you use <label-toggle> you must also include
; the definition for <label-open>
; format = <label-toggle><menu>
label-open = Apps
label-close = x
; Optional item separator
; Default: none
label-separator = |
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