NAME

rootmenu − root menu specification for SunView

SYNOPSIS

~/.rootmenu
/usr/lib/.rootmenu

DESCRIPTION

If a .rootmenu file is present in a user’s home directory, it specifies the SunView menu, the menu that appears when the user clicks and holds the right mouse button in the background of the SunView desktop.  If a .rootmenu file is not present in the user’s home directory, /usr/lib/.rootmenu specifies the SunView menu. 

Each line of a .rootmenu file has the format:

menu item command

menu item can be a character string, or an icon file delimited by angle brackets:

<icon-filename>

If menu item is a character string with embedded spaces, it must be enclosed by double quotes (‘"’). 

command can be a command line to be executed when the menu item is selected, or one of the following reserved-word commands:

EXIT Exit sunview (requires confirmation). 

REFRESH Redraw the entire screen. 

MENU This menu item is a pull-right item with a submenu.  If a full pathname follows the MENU command, the submenu contents are taken from that file.  Otherwise, all the lines between a MENU command and a matching END command are added to the submenu. 

END Mark the end of a nested submenu.  The left side of this line should match the left side of a line with a MENU command. 

If command is not one of the reserved-word commands, it is treated as a command line, although no shell interpretation is done. 

Lines beginning with a ‘#’ character are considered comments and are ignored. 

If a user’s .rootmenu file is modified, the SunView menu immediately reflects the changes. 

See sunview(1) for more details about .rootmenu. 

EXAMPLES

The following is a sample .rootmenu file:

#
#sample root menu
#
"Lock Screen"lockscreen
Tools     MENU
Perfmeterperfmeter
Calculatorcalc
Mailtoolmailtool
Tools     END
"ShellTool"shelltool
"CommandTool"cmdtool
"Console"cmdtool -C
#"MailTool"mailtool
"TextEditor"textedit
"DefaultsEditor"defaultsedit
#"IconEditor"iconedit
#"DbxTool"dbxtool
"PerfMeter"perfmeter
#"GraphicsTool"gfxtool
"Redisplay All"REFRESH
"Exit Suntools"EXIT

SEE ALSO

sunview(1)

Solbourne Computer, Inc.  —  26 Dec 1990