Where the **** does Mandrake keep its menus?

[nukes]

Right, I've installed Mandrake 9 on my brothers computer. He's not a big tech guy so I figure mandrake would be easier to manage.
He's using Blackbox, and logging in via kdm.
Mandrake seems to store its menus in some wierd location. I've installed some software on his box, and not being physically there, I need to add to his menus. I looked in /usr/share/blackbox/menu, and that is a menu file, but not the one that is used. Where is it? Running BB, he has no run command, and it is much better for me to configure things over ssh than to try and shove him out the way when I'm fixing something, this way he can carry on surfing the net and doing his thang whithout interruption.

[jkrohn]

Check in his home directory. It only looks to /usr/share/blackbox/menu if nothing exists in the home directory.

Been awhile since I used blackbox but I think it is ~/.blackbox/menu as this is the convention flux follows

Jkrohn@Slackbox:~/.fluxbox$ ls
init*  keys*  menu*

Jkrohn

[nukes]

No, there're not there, there is a menu file in the /usr/share/blackbox, but its not the one that's used. Mandrake has a wierd way of handling its menus so they all match up. Menudrake and such. I guess I can go on jsut using the *grimace* graphical configuration tools.

[strangerstill]

Hehe. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/how...ed.html#AEN642 :

As of the 7.1 version of Mandrake Linux, we now use the Menu System written by Debian.

This excellent software provides a Window-Manager independant way to register an application to the system. Most of the time, this registration will become effective in the Start button or alike of your favourite Window Manager.

It works like this: each package includes a file in directory /usr/lib/menu/.

and so on... hack away at the files in /usr/lib/menu, and then run update-menus.

Of course, you could just ssh in forwarding X from an X server and run menudrake...

[nukes]

thanks. I loved debians menu system because whenever you apt-get something, it was there waiting for you!
Cheers Stranger!