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#1 2018-12-22 17:53:37

armight01
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Menu Troubles...

I edited my openbox menu with the gui editor and now my menu still pops up on right click but none of the entries work. pls help. It gives an error saying: Text was empty (or contained only whitespace)
how do I get my menu back? sad

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#2 2018-12-22 18:23:05

jasonwryan
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Re: Menu Troubles...

You open it with a text editor and fix it.


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#3 2018-12-22 18:26:44

Slithery
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Re: Menu Troubles...

Edit it manually and fix the broken bits?


No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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#4 2018-12-22 18:31:22

sammiev
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Re: Menu Troubles...

Always backup the file(s) you will be editing before making changes.
Just for situations like this.

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#5 2018-12-22 20:57:12

armight01
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Re: Menu Troubles...

thanks all someone over at the archlabs forum posted a link to the original file and that did it...got to learn more about why that error ocurred neutral

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#6 2018-12-22 21:15:27

2ManyDogs
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Re: Menu Troubles...

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).

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#7 2018-12-22 21:25:03

Trilby
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Re: Menu Troubles...

armight01 wrote:

thanks all someone over at the archlabs forum posted a link to the original file

You already had a copy of the original file installed with the package on your system.  You'd know this too if you even glanced at the obviously relevant wiki page on openbox with a section specifically about configuration - even a part specifically about configuring the menu.  It specifically shows the command to copy the default configs into place:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … figuration


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#8 2018-12-22 22:26:02

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Re: Menu Troubles...

armight01 wrote:

thanks all someone over at the archlabs forum...


So you installed archlabs?


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