Re: passing parameters with kmenu

[James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@xxxxxxx>]

Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
> When I look at the entries in the kmenu I can see that a lot of them are 
> passing parameters like this:
> 
> kdvi %f -caption "%c" %i %m
> 
> I'm guessing that I can find out what the program accepts using the man pages.
> 
> Where can I find out what is meant by %f %c %i %m, etc
> 
I can tell you:

	%f	one file
	%c	caption
	%i	icons
	%m	mini-icon (now obsolete)

These (and others) are covered in more detail in the FreeDesktop Desktop 
standard:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html

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JRT
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