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skottish

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obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

I put the code:

<menu execute="obm-xdg" id="obm-xdg" label="xdg"/>

in ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml just like it says to do universally. It does not show any menu. Every other menu item in the file works. I can edit them and they change. obmenu can see the entry. gnome-menus is installed. obm-xdg works from the command line. Why does this not show anything in the menu?

Last edited by skottish (2008-11-06 05:27:03)

Ghost1227

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Re: obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

nevermind.. that wouldn't have made much difference... thayer had it.

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thayer

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Re: obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

Make sure you add the menu id to the root-menu list at the bottom of menu.xml:

<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
  <separator label="Applications" />
  <menu id="obm-xdg" />
  <menu id="apps-accessories-menu"/>
  <menu id="apps-editors-menu"/>

Last edited by thayer (2008-11-06 05:11:29)

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skottish

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Re: obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

Yes, the missing step... very helpful in menu generation. Thanks thayer.

By the way, what's up with the duplicate menu entries in the pipe menu?

Last edited by skottish (2008-11-06 05:31:49)

thayer

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Re: obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

Glad that helped...I think they should move the menu id's to the top because that's a common oversight--my config has menu headers in-line with the menu itself.

Not sure about the duplicates though, I tried the xdg menus when I first tried OB and didn't like them.

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skottish

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Re: obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

This worked: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50604

It's just something that I've never seen with E17.