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mate

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Registered: 2011-05-24

Posts: 27

globalmenu in lxpanel using openbox

Hi, i m running the latest arch kernel and openbox3 as my wm.
Also have lxpanel, wich is a great and light panel.
The only thing that i d like to add to it its the (macish )globalmenu, wich is in my opinion the best way to create space on the workspace, quite useful since i run arch on a laptop.
i found these package:
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.vanderhoff/downloads/
but i can't build it.
I have searched the net for information but found only pages in russian and polish, google translate didn't do a great job there
So anyone can help me with that, any other interested in the solution??
thanks in advance for your responses

Terminator

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 265

Re: globalmenu in lxpanel using openbox

The build script (autogen.sh) tries to use the wrong version of automake. You have to change the version on the fourth line.

+ AUTOMAKE=automake-1.11

has to be:

+ AUTOMAKE=automake-1.12

edit: AUTOMAKE=automake probably works as well.

Last edited by Terminator (2012-05-08 16:36:11)

mate

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Registered: 2011-05-24

Posts: 27

Re: globalmenu in lxpanel using openbox

hi terminator, thanks for your advice.
it actually seems to work, but i can't say it yet because i'm having toubles building gnome-menu-git from aur, wich is a depend for global-menu
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23797
using the latest pkgbuild (adding libwnk to depends as said in the comments) from page gave me:
ERROR: install file (gnome-globalmenu.install) does not exist
any idea? (sorry but im not too familiar with building packages)

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 2,486

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Re: globalmenu in lxpanel using openbox

^ Yes. Download the tarball provided by the AUR page, isntead of just the PKGBUILD. Then extract it, cd to it, and run makepkg again.

All that info is found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

For easier package building, you can also use an AUR helper: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helper
I'd recommend Packer, but Yaourt is pretty popular too.

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