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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!

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

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.

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?

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)

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

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

Assuming you named it the same as mine.

Ok::I looked in the pm_swap.sh :: 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.

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

Matt

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

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?