Bug#868431: wmaker: uses static upstream menu

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2017-07-15 Doug Torrance <dtorrance at piedmont.edu> wrote:
> On 07/15/2017 08:03 AM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Debian's wmaker ships a menu-method for update-menus, but is not used,
>> wmaker takes /usr/share/WindowMaker/menu.
[...]
>> The search does not succeed, the menu-method writes to
>> /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/menu.hook.
[...]
>> xsession-errors says
>> "/usr/lib/WindowMaker/wmaker(configureMenu(rootmenu.c:1512)): warning:
>> using default menu file "/usr/share/WindowMaker/menu" as the menu
>> referenced in WMRootMenu could not be found"

> The Debian menu loads just fine for me provided that I have the menu package
> (in wmaker's Suggests) installed.

Hello,

Strange, I also do have menu installed. I have doublechecked that it is
not my user profile that is broken by testing with a freshly generated
user with almost empty ~/. I need to symlink/copy
/etc/GNUstep/Defaults/menu.hook to ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ to get
the Debian menu.

cu Andreas
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