how to change the menu list in new customised knoppix cd

[sfit]

how do i change the menu list in my new costomised cd.

[rneff]

Can you be more specific?
What does the "menu list" refer to ?

[triveditej]

sir,

we want to know, how to change the menu in the customised cd. because we tried changing the menu using menu editor(these changes were done on the extracted ISO)but when we burned the cd the changes were not reflected.is there any method by which we can change the menu such that the changes are reflected on the customised CD.

[arkaine23]

boot the CD in runlevel 2, chroot to the remastered files on the HDD, copy and then chown and chmod the files (user knoppix, group knoppix, 755) from /etc/skel into a newly created /home/knoppix. su knoppix and create a ~/.xinitrc file to start KDE, and run startx. Now you are running KDE from the chrooted system. You'll need to menu edit and make other configuration changes from here. When done, you can delete the files (or back them up somehwere else is safer) in /etc/skel, then mv the edited /home/knoppix files back to /etc/skel and make them unwriteable and chown them to root.

A bit complex I admit, but it worked pretty well for me. But eventually even that technique is not perfect and you may have problenms deleting menu entries for unistalled software. Everyone is pretty perplexed as to how the menus are created, there are some system-wide defaults in /usr/share/kde and also in /var/share/kde/menu.

Whatever you do, do it carefully or you could get to the point where you have to start over.

[sfit]

sir,

thanks for your reply
we tried it -
since the /skel of /etc/skel and /home/knoppix was identical, we made changes in
/etc/skel , mv the changes to /home/knoppix
But the changes were not reflected in the menu after we burned the image
we also tried earlier to make changes in /usr/lib/menu but it did not work either
Please help

sfit

[dil]

Hi,
I've done changes in the kde menu.
For example supose that the source of th knoppix version that you wanna modify is in /mnt/hda5
You only have to edit which files that you want in
/mnt/hda5/usr/share/applnk

have a quick view to the files in this directory, and early you'll be able to do your custom menu.
Note that there are oculted files (.directory)

Thats all!

[sfit]

sir,

thank you for reply

u say tht u have made changes in /usr/share/applnk for menu

and it got reflected in the menu after burning the iso

we had tried this but it did not work

please help

sfit

[dil]

I don't know hot to help you.
I' modified a lot of thing in /mnt/hda5/usr/share/applnk and it allways go on!

It would be better if you explain what you've done...

Dil.

[sfit]

sir,

thank you for reply

initially while remastering we tried to make changes in /usr/share/applnk

not working ,we tried with /usr/lib/menu

then we worked acc to a reply i.e. make changes in /etc/skel and transferring changes to /home/knoppix

it did not work either

kindly reply

sfit

[arkaine23]

Perhaps I was unclear. What worked for me was to remaster by booting in text mode (runlevel 2), create an empty /home/knoppix, trasnfer teh contents of /etc/skel to /home/knoppix, chown and chmod them to be writeable and owned by knoppix, then make a .xinitrc file.

inside the file /home/knoppix/.xinitrc is:

startkde


Start x from chrooted environment as user knoppix using default configs that came from /etc/skel.

su knoppix
startx

Use KDE Control Center menu editor to edit the menus.

mv contents of /etc/skel to somewhere else (as a backup) in case of problems.

mv contents of /home/knoppix to empty directory /etc/skel. Delete empty directory /home/knoppix. Chown -R root:root and chmod -R 755 all files in /etc/skel.

Remaster and test.