ICEWM-MENU-FDO(1)

NAME
 icewm-menu-fdo - menu generator for .desktop files

SYNOPSIS
icewm-menu-fdo [FILENAME]

DESCRIPTION
icewm-menu-fdo introduces the XDG menu descriptors (aka FreeDesktop.Org .desktop files) to the menus of IceWM window manager.

ARGUMENTS

[FILENAME]
    When provided with the optional FILENAME argument that is the name and location of a .desktop file, icewm-menu-fdo will open it and launch the application using the "Exec" line from the desktop file.

OPTIONS
This program doesn't use command line options. In future, it might support the pass-through of arguments to the command run from .desktop file's "Exec" line.

USAGE
This utility is not normally used directly, but is used as the executable in a menuprog entry in a menu.

ENVIRONMENT
XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIRS are considered as suggested by XDG Base Directory Specification.

CONFORMING TO
icewm-menu-fdo complies roughly to the XDG .desktop file and menu specification, see "Desktop Entry Specification", Version 1.2alpha, 2015-03-06 and "Desktop Menu Specification", Version 1.1-draft, 31 March 2011.

CAVEATS
The icewm-menu-fdo program is only built when the icewm(1) package is configured with the --enable-menus-fdo option.

SEE ALSO
"Desktop Entry Specification", "Desktop Menu Specification", icewm(1), icewm-menu(5), icewm-preferences(5), icewm-programs(5).

BUGS
icewm-menu-fdo had no known bugs at the time of release. Please report bugs for current versions to the source code repository at <https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues>.

AUTHOR
Brian Bidulock <mailto:bidulock@openss7.org>.

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LICENSE
IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the COPYING file in the distribution or use the --copying flag to display copying permissions.