Hello:

This is a very impressive distro. I'm really happy with it.

I have a small problem. I deleted Abiword and installed Open Office, Bibus and R (statistical software). But the right click menu on the desktop still shows Abiword and does not show up (or at least I can't find them) the other ones.

How do I change the right-click menu to reflect the changed apps?

I logged out and logged back in but they still do not show up.

Best regards.

I assume you are using the default WM Fluxbox. Fluxbox does not update it's menus automatically, you must edit them manually. Right click for menu, select run and type:
This will open the menu text file. Just switch the entry for abiword for open office and and any others. To get the proper commands you can look in /usr/share/applications. Find the app and right click and open with leafpad or open as text and you should be able to see Exec=command.

I'm not sure of the exact commands you need but they should be in /usr/share/applications. Good luck and enjoy.

Thanks for the information, eriefisher!

Regards.

See here to get a fluxbox or icewm that auto-updates itself


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Hi anticapitalista:

Thanks for the link. I may update so that fluxbox auto-updates, yet it's kind of fun doing the manual update. This is my first experirence with fluxbox so I'm interested in learning about it.

Regards.

I apologize for all the newbie questions.

I did set the Open Office applications in the menu and they do work.

However, when I tried to set up R, I can't get it to work. All I need to do to start the program is type"R" (no quotes) in a terminal window. I set the PATH to

/usr/lib/R/bin

and the fluxbox menu command to {/usr/lib/R/bin R} and nothing happens. I also tried {R} and that does not work either.

I read the Howto but could not figure out how to point it in the right direction.

thanks.

R is in your"path" somewhere because you can start it with a simple command.

However you need to find where the application actually is. It is usually in /usr/bin in antiX as eriefisher said. Go to /usr/lib/R/bin and see if it starts when you click on it. If it doesn't, then you need to find the location. I usually look in synaptic in the Installed Files tab.

If just"R" is the command you use in the terminal then that's all you need in the menu.
Just make sure the case is correct(upper or lower case)

Try this if R runs inside a terminal

[exec] (R) {roxterm -e R}

Does this app run in a terminal? not graphical????

It runs in a terminal, so

[exec] (R) {roxterm -e R}

is the correct one.

thanks to all for your help.

Anticapitalista was correct and the problem was fixed. I learned that just typing"R" in a term calls up a shell script to the program. I'm sorry I did not indicate earlier that it was a graphical application (the others are and the icons exec worked very nicely in the menu file). I should have said that R runs in a terminal

Now all my new applications are showing up nicely (and also removed the ones I'm not using).

Once again, thanks for putting up with all my newbie questions.

Regards.