Using The Debian Menu System

Files

~/.menu/*

Menu files added by the user. (Isn't read if root runs update-menus) Users who want to override the system wide defaults put their files in ~/.menu

/etc/menu

Menu files added by the system administrator.

/usr/lib/menu/*

Architecture-dependant menu files provided by other Debian packages.

/usr/share/menu/*

Architecture-independant menu files provided by other Debian packages.

/usr/share/menu/default/*

Menu files provided by the menu package.

/etc/menu-methods/

Executable configuration files that are added by window managers and other menu programs, these files are run by update-menus to generate menus for the different programs. Also in this directory is the translate_menus file, used for local configuration of the shape of the menu trees.

~/.menu-methods/

For users to override the system-defaults of /etc/menu-methods. If this directory exists, no files in /etc/menu-methods are read any more.

Miscellaneous

When using /etc/menu for local stuff and using text mode, you can change the default psuedo-terminal in /etc/menu-methods/menu.h. Then run update-menus. Or, just change the link for /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator

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