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## NAME

    icewm-programs - icewm programs configuration file

## SYNOPSIS

    $ICEWM_PRIVCFG/programs
    $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/programs
    $HOME/.icewm/programs
    /etc/icewm/programs
    /usr/share/icewm/programs

## DESCRIPTION

The programs file is an automatically generated menu configuration file of installed programs. This file should be automatically generated by xdg_menu, wmconfig (Redhat), menu (Debian), or icewm-menu-fdo, perhaps as part of the login or X startup sequence.

## FORMAT

The format of the file contains one of the following line syntax:

prog "title" icon program options

  Specifies a program to execute when the menu item is selected.

restart "title" icon program options

  Specifies a program to replace the window manager when the menu item is selected. This is for launching other window managers from within icewm(1).

runonce "title" icon "[name][.class]" program options

  Specifies a program to execute when the menu item is selected; however, if a window of the specified name and class is present, the program will not be run again.

menu "title" icon { # contained items }

  Specifies a sub-menu. The lines that appear between the braces can be any menu item described here.

menufile "title" icon "filename"

  Specifies a file from which to collect sub-menu items (lines) and place them at this point in the menu.

menuprog "title" icon program options

  Specifies a program that will print sub-menu items on standard output and will be collected and placed in the sub-menu at this point.

menuprogreload "title" icon timeout program options

  Similar to menuprog, but after at least timeout seconds the menu is regenerated.

include "filename"

  Read additional entries from the file filename

includeprog program options

  Read additional entries from the output of program options.

separator

  A separator for menu items.

Where

prog, restart, runonce, menu, menufile, menuprog, menuprogreload, include, includeprog, separator

  These are literal string keywords.

"title"

  This is the title string associated with the menu item that is displayed in the menu. When the title contains spaces, the title must be surrounded by double quotes (`"`).

icon

  Is the name of the icon file (with or without extension) or the full path to an icon file.

"[name][.class]"

  name is the resource name of a window launched by program and class is the resource class of the window. Only one of name or class need be specified. This is used to determine whether the program is already running. It is used with the runonce keyword.

program options

  program is the name of the executable or full path to the executable file that will be run in response to selecting the menu item. When used with the menuprog keyword, the program must print on standard output the contents of the menu and is used for dynamic menus.

  options is the options and arguments passed to the program verbatim.

filename

  filename is the name of the file relative to one of the icewm(1) configuration directories, or the full path to a file. The file is used with the menufile keyword and specifies the file from which to read further menu items.

## EXAMPLES

Following is the example programs file that ships with icewm(1):

    # This file is intended to be customized by the distributions.
    # (they should place it in /etc/X11/icewm)
    #
    # mostly obsolete, fixme
    menu Editors folder {
        prog vim vim gvim
        prog emacs emacs emacs
        prog Lyx emacs lyx
    }
    menu "WWW" folder {
        prog Galeon galeon galeon
        prog Arena arena arena
        prog Lynx lynx xterm -e lynx
        prog Links lynx xterm -e links
    }
    menu "Document Viewers" folder {
        prog "DVI Previewer" xdvi xdvi
        prog "Ghostview" ghostview gv
    }
    menu Graphics folder {
        prog Gimp gimp gimp
        prog XV xv xv
        prog XPaint xpaint xpaint
        prog XFig xfig xfig
    }
    menu Games folder {
        prog Xboard xboard xboard
        prog "Tux Racer" tuxracer tuxracer
    }
    menu System folder {
        prog "Control Panel" redhat control-panel
    }
    menu Utilities folder {
        prog XPlayCD xplaycd xplaycd
        prog XMixer xmixer xmixer
        prog Clock xclock xclock
        prog Magnify xmag xmag
        prog Calculator xcalc xcalc
        prog Colormap xcolormap xcmap
        prog Clipboard xclipboard xclipboard
        prog xkill bomb xkill
        prog xload xload xload
        prog xosview xosview xosview
        separator
        prog "Screen Saver" xlock xlock -nolock
        prog "Screen Lock" xlock xlock
    }
    menu "Window Managers" folder {
        restart icewm - icewm
        restart metacity - metacity
        restart wmaker - wmaker
        restart fluxbox - fluxbox
        restart blackbox - blackbox
        restart enlightenment - enlightenment
        restart fvwm2 - fvwm2
        restart fvwm - fvwm
        restart sawfish - sawfish
        restart sawfish2 - sawfish2
    }

## FILES

Locations for the programs file are as follows:

    $ICEWM_PRIVCFG/programs
    $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/programs
    $HOME/.icewm/programs
    /etc/icewm/programs
    /usr/share/icewm/programs

The locations are searched in the order listed; the first file found is read and the remainder ignored.

## SEE ALSO

icewm(1), icewm-menu(5), icewm-menu-fdo(1).

## AUTHOR

Brian Bidulock mailto:bidulock@openss7.org.

## LICENSE

IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the COPYING file in the distribution.

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