"compressed into one line" as in i have something likeMochiMoppel wrote:Again I'm completely lost. With all this jumping around and the lengthy full quotes this thread is hard to follow and I have no idea what you have or want to achieve. "compressed into one line"? And what is this rename business? Surely unnecessary, but without knowing your current main menu it's hard to propose alternatives.Puppus Dogfellow wrote:... the entire original menu compressed into one line. my workaround for fixmenus is to right click copy .jwmrc (add something to the file before the period and press enter) after every major change or restructuring. then, if i have to run fixmenus or install/uninstall something, i do that as normal, then go back to the renamed .jwmrc file, remove what i added to the file name, resave, and restart jwm. everything is saved and updated. it's not ideal, but it works.
in most of my machines' .jwmrc files.<Menu label="original menu" icon="" height="16">
[the entire original menu with many of my own menus buried within the extant categories, plus what ever menus and submenus i added outside it, under it, within it, etc]
</Menu>
the rename business is related to the fact that i don't know how to make the _root_.jwmrc file act exactly like the .jwmrc file--i have no idea how to embed the existing menus into one another or make my own menus into submenus of what's already there. since i know that .jwmrc allows it, i back mine up (rename a copy) and overwrite (rename it back) the "fixmenued" .jwmrc after installation/uninstallation of files/after fixmenus does its thing.
in short, it wouldn't be an issue if i knew how to edit the menus themselves in _root_.jwmrc (or wherever it supposed to be done) and not just the spaces around them. i supposed an additional root menu or two would also accomplish what i want.