StartMenu

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 19 February 2025
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NAME

StartMenu - Portable start menu of all WA2L/WinTools utilities

 

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/StartMenu [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

 

DESCRIPTION

start menu with all WA2L/WinTools utilities that sits in the Windows™ system tray.

The menu contains the same entries as created in the Windows™ 'Start' menu when the [x] Create start menu entries option in the dialog of config(1m) is chosen.

The startmenu(1) can be used if it is not desired to use classicstartmenu(1m) but nevertheless have a structured menu of all utilities of the WA2L/WinTools package available.

Beside the WA2L/WinTools start menu, the entries of the Windows™ 'Startup' menu and (if installed right beside the WA2L/WinTools package) the menu entries of the WA2L/SimpleBackup package are provided also as menus.

Furthermore, all applications defined in run(1) are also provided as the 'Applications' menu.

You should not add own entries to this menu because your entries will be lost on next start; for an own portable start menu use pstart(1).

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

(Re-)Start StartMenu.

-i
install the StartMenu command to 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-u
uninstall the StartMenu shortcut from 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-V
print program version.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

4
usage message displayed.

5
version message displayed.

 

FILES

WA2LWinTools/
install directory of the WA2L/WinTools package.

WA2LWinTools/../WA2LSimpleBackup/
install directory of the WA2L/SimpleBackup package.

var/cache/startmenu/startmenu.xml
dynamically generated menu definition for StartMenu.

etc/StartMenu.cfg
optional configuration file of StartMenu.
  The setting APPLICATIONS=(True|False) can be used to enable (True) or disable (False) the creation of the 'Applications (A-Z)' menu and APPLICATIONS_CATEGORY=(True|False) to enable/disable the creation of the 'Applications (Category)' menu, whereas the default is True.

etc/StartMenu.mnu
optional mapping file to automatically categorize the applications defined in run.cfg and to generate the 'Applications (Category)' submenus.

lib/tf/tf.startmenu.run.mnu
mapping file to automatically categorize the applications defined in run.cfg and to generate the 'Applications (Category)' submenus. Do not edit this file, add/define your mappings in the etc/StartMenu.mnu file.

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

wintoolsintro(1), config(1m), classicstartmenu(1), pstart(1), run(1), qsel(1), startmenu.cfg(4)

 

NOTES

StartMenu uses PStart with an automatically generated configuration internally.

See pstart(1) for more information.

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

PStart was developed by 'PEGTOP Software' (see: http://www.pegtop.net/start/) and integrated as StartMenu into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports regarding to the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2023 Christian Walther

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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