Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

fiferboy, this is GREAT. It does exactly what I wanted. It was easy to make the enhancement work, and it works very smoothly. You nailed it again.

THANKS!

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

is it anyone else that suspect that will turn into a second programs meny, only more configurable? only thing missing now is the option of sub-menus :P

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

tso: You are right, this would be a good thing to do within Personal Menu. I could probably make it more seamless, too. Maybe (maybe) even adding optional password protection to any of the configurations.

Sub-menus have been on my todo for quite some time, but it would be a huge change and a LOT of recoding. I will probably get to this after a few more smaller releases.

I also need to add a more intuitive way of adding headings. People who don't read this thread often don't figure it out. I have a few more little ideas as well.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

YES! If one of the swaps could be password-protected and the other not -- that would be perfect.
Much less important to me now that there's the swap. But I know, that's just me.
What do you mean about "adding headings" -- what are you referring to?

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

GeraldKo: If you add an entry with a name but a blank executable (icon doesn't matter one way or the other) it is a heading, and is displayed differently (no icon, defaults to bold text but you can change the colour or font however you want)

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Help,

I followed your instructions to no avail...

Swap from within PM would not run (execution failed) unless I had the option run as root checked. With run as root it would say "swap" starting...but then nothing after the notification went away.

On the assumption that I have hosed the .personal_menu.rc, what should be in this file to start with.

PM 0.7-6

Thanks

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Snoshrk: try running your script from the terminal and see what the output is. Try:

Assuming you named it the same as mine.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Ok::o:I looked in the pm_swap.sh ::o: so much for being lazy and using NotePad++ on my desktop to create the script. Nothing like an extraneous ^M at the end of evey line.

I removed the ^M s and ran the script from the terminal. OK it works from the terminal...but not from the PM on the desktop?

Never mind... dXXm auto capitalization in the executable line.:o

Thanks fiferboy for your quick response and for a most excellent menu!

Matt

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu for Diablo
 

I upgraded to Diablo yesterday and while everything seemed to go relatively smoothly except for the automatic application reinstall (expected). I have ran into one major problem with Personal Menu though: I have a existing personal menu rc file and despite various changes to it via the configuration tool or vi, I am never able to get PM to display the contents. Clicking on the PM icon gives me a single line:
"Create your personal menu!"
Clicking on it brings up the expected configuration tool and all of my entries are there intact. I don't have any >, <, or & characters either and even after starting with a fresh installation and renaming the old configuration file it still does the same thing. It saves all changes but never shows them from the launcher icon.

Any ideas?

Larry

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Larry, that has never happened to me and I have been running Diablo for weeks. I just did the official Diablo upgrade yesterday, and everything is still fine. Try checking the permissions of your config file:

And make the the user ("user") and group ("users") are correct. Otherwise, maybe a reboot will help?