configuring openbox's menu

zba78 · 2005-10-13 08:35:22

Installed the latest openbox from pacman. Fbpanel works fine as does adesklets. But I just can't seem to change/configure the menu.

I've copied /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and made changes to it. Nothing. Logged out and back in, nothing changed.

So I changed the filename to zmenu.xml and edited ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml so that the menu file it should look for (in the <menu> section) is ~/.config/openbox/zmenu.xml but still nothing.

Any ideas? I've had to return to fluxbox for now (which isn't such a terrible thing)

Mr Green · 2005-10-13 08:37:34

Hi,

Once you edited menu.xml & saved it then use reconfigure from main menu ;-)

Check also permissions on .config ...

HTH

mpie · 2005-10-13 09:57:00

or you could...

pacman -S menumaker

mmaker openbox3

and watch it get automagically get populated....

Mr Green · 2005-10-13 10:15:38

nooooooooo!!!!!!

mpie · 2005-10-13 10:22:34

? why, whats wrong with being a little lazy....

you can always then edit the generated one to your liking....

Mr Green · 2005-10-13 10:31:17

j/k do what you want... lol

zba78 · 2005-10-13 11:04:12

Thanks guys. I'm sure I did the 'reconfigure' thing (many times infact) but it had no effect. Permissions in ~/.config/openbox are fine too (otherwise I wouldn't be able to edit the rc.xml & menu.xml files).

Perhaps I'll try the mmaker when I get home.

BTW, I'm alwys up for the lazy option

T-Dawg · 2005-10-13 11:10:05

....or you can send off an order to Mr Green and he will build you you're very own customized menu for...you guessed it only $19.95. Call now and get a free attached toilet so you may never have to leave your seat again.

Mr Green · 2005-10-13 11:43:51

I'm not (as you may have guessed!) a big fan of mmaker

$19.95 sounds waaay too cheap lol

zba78 · 2005-10-13 11:59:49

Could I just have the free toilet seat please?

ozar · 2005-10-13 14:02:17

Yeah, I've tried menumaker 3 or 4 times and never like it, either. Manual edits only for me. 8)

zba78 · 2005-10-13 14:59:55

Another quickie. Could I use fbsetbg to set the background of openbox (unless xsetroot supports PNGs and JPEGs)?

Mr Green · 2005-10-13 15:11:05

Yes & No

I use feh but there are many to chose from...

Legout · 2005-10-13 19:07:26

I use menumaker as base.

Open a new file, copy the things u like into it, add some things ur missing....

That´s how i configured my menu.

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-13 19:15:16

Try the development version of menumaker. 0.99.5 works very well with Openbox.

(0.99.6 doesn't work with Openbox, unfortunately.)

Mr Green · 2005-10-13 19:18:34

no no no no no!

leave mmaker alone lol

zba78 · 2005-10-14 08:32:41

All sorted.

Deleted ~/.config/openbox directory altogether and started again. This time it just seemed to work.

Used menumaker. Not bad at all. I now just have to re-arange everything to my liking (I really don't like having things split up into KDE & Gnome separately)

Thanks for all your help anyway

Mr Green · 2005-10-14 08:44:15

zba78 wrote:

Used menumaker. Not bad at all. I now just have to re-arange everything to my liking (I really don't like having things split up into KDE & Gnome separately)

:shock:

zba78 · 2005-10-14 09:35:06

Mr Green wrote:

zba78 wrote:
Used menumaker. Not bad at all. I now just have to re-arange everything to my liking (I really don't like having things split up into KDE & Gnome separately)
:shock:

You know what I mean. rather then having:

Gnome --> Internet --> Gaim, gftp, galeon
KDE --> Internet --> Konquorer Web Browser, Kopete, Apollon
Internet --> Firefox, Thunderbird, Lynks

I'd rather have one submenu called Internet with all in there, e.g.:

Internet --> Gaim, gftp, galeon, Konquorer Web Browser, Kopete, Apollon, Firefox, Thunderbird, Lynks, Azureus

Same for editors, multimedia apps etc.

Mr Green · 2005-10-14 09:45:23

Yeah thats cool ..... 8)

you do not need menumaker for that ....

A good editor with syntax highlighting will help

(please forgive my rants about mm I just do not like it!)

Use Openbox & be

T-Dawg · 2005-10-14 11:07:50

ob3menuizer!

muhahahahh...

dtw · 2005-10-14 11:16:43

Penguin: you should have used the google: tags, dude...

Mr Green · 2005-10-14 11:29:19

Yuk!!!!

AUR tags :shock:

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-14 19:44:55

Does ob3menuizer use .desktop files yet? If not, I shall stick with my mmaker-devel PKGBUILD.

(Version 0.99.5 uses desktop entries and does not separate the Gnome and KDE menus, thank goodness. The menumaker development versions seem a bit buggy though, so I'd be more than willing to try something else..)

Edit: Grrr, it does not use .desktop files! WTH!

Mr Green · 2005-10-15 07:21:43

you could try denu

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