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lightspeed3e8

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Registered: 2008-12-16

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[solved] I lost my openbox menu, how do I launch an app ?

Hi,

I probably messed up trying to change my openbox menu via obmenu. After I rebooted, I found my desktop, and when I clicked I found an empty openbox menu. I don't know how to fix this, I can't find a solution to open a terminal (I used to do that via the menu).
My login manager is slim, I tried to type "console" as a login but it didn't work.

How can I access a terminal ?

Last edited by lightspeed3e8 (2008-12-22 14:55:18)

patogen

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Registered: 2008-05-11

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Re: [solved] I lost my openbox menu, how do I launch an app ?

Hi,

I probably messed up trying to change my openbox menu via obmenu. After I rebooted, I found my desktop, and when I clicked I found an empty openbox menu. I don't know how to fix this, I can't find a solution to open a terminal (I used to do that via the menu).
My login manager is slim, I tried to type "console" as a login but it didn't work.

How can I access a terminal ?

Try ctrl+alt+FX where X=2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11 ... it should allow you to go into tty and change your menu.xml to be fixed. Otherwise you might want to edit your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh to include your favourite terminal.

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XFire

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Re: [solved] I lost my openbox menu, how do I launch an app ?

What pathogen said, or you could edit your ~/.xinitrc to include a terminal.

When you have a terminal enter obmenu to configure the openbox menu.

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lightspeed3e8

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Registered: 2008-12-16

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Re: [solved] I lost my openbox menu, how do I launch an app ?

Ok, I will try the ctrl+alt+fx method.
About the other method, how do I get to edit ~/.xinitrc if I can't open a terminal ?

thank you

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Re: [solved] I lost my openbox menu, how do I launch an app ?

Kill X with ctrl+alt+backspace, edit the file, then restart x with xstart.

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lightspeed3e8

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Registered: 2008-12-16

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Re: [solved] I lost my openbox menu, how do I launch an app ?

Great thank you very much.