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Archer73

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Registered: 2009-01-27

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[SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

Hi all,
i don't speak english very well
i try to add icons on my Openbox menu
i added this string <showIcons>yes</showIcons> in the <menu> section of rc.xml file
after i went to edit menu.xml

i tried:
<menu id="apps-accessori-menu" label="Accessori" icon="/home/user/.icons/Faenza/apps/24/accessories-calculator">
...
<menu id="apps-accessori-menu" icon="/home/user/.icons/Faenza/apps/24/accessories-calculator" label="Accessori">
...
<menu id="apps-accessori-menu" icon="/home/user/.icons/Faenza/apps/24/accessories-calculator.png" label="Accessori">
...
<item icon="/usr/share/icons/Tango/24x24/apps/accessories-calculator.png" label="Calcolatrice">
...
<item label="File-Roller" icon="network">
...
<item icon="/home/user/.icons/Tango-Sand/48x48/apps/broswer" label="Networkmanager">

i tried to add icon on menu and item, before and after label, with extension (.png) and without, from my local directory and from /use/shre/icons...
but i don't see icon!
what i wrong? what i need? i read i must compile Openbox with imlib2 support, how to?

thank you

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

I do not know about the Openbox icon display stuff (try Google, search the Arch forums, and have a look at the Openbox Wiki).

If you want to recompile Openbox (or any other program in the Arch proper) have a look at the ABS wiki.

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Archer73

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Registered: 2009-01-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

i found always same news on the net
i tried to recompile but don't work
i have imlib2 installated

swanson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-02-05

Posts: 759

Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

No icons in menu here either. As far as gather it is possible in 3.5.0. Look here; http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=95258.0 for possible solution.

Archer73

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

i saw before towrite this post

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

i tried to recompile but don't work

That's not very helpful. You need to learn how to use abs. Then use it to compile your own version of openbox with icons support. If you have problems, post specifically what you've tried and what the error messages were.

Though what puzzles me is why isn't the Arch package compiled with icons support in the first place?

Archer73

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Registered: 2009-01-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

i tried to recompile but don't work

That's not very helpful. You need to learn how to use abs. Then use it to compile your own version of openbox with icons support. If you have problems, post specifically what you've tried and what the error messages were.

Though what puzzles me is why isn't the Arch package compiled with icons support in the first place?

let me understand
if i install openbox from shell

pacman -S openbox

i can't use icons?

my openbox versione is:

Openbox 3.5.0
Copyright (c) 2008        Mikael Magnusson
Copyright (c) 2003-2006   Dana Jansens

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

are you sure i must to compile openbox with icons support?

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

Take a look here, perhaps it might work:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … res-setup/

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swanson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-02-05

Posts: 759

Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

Just tried obconf;
obconf: error while loading shared libraries: libobrender.so.21: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What's up?

EDIT: reinstalled obconf and now it complains that I probably haven't installed openbox correctly? Just did a standard update! Something is not ok.

Last edited by swanson (2011-08-16 17:48:36)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

let me understand
if i install openbox from shell

pacman -S openbox

i can't use icons?

Correct. The Arch package is compiled without icons support. You need to compile your own Openbox.

Archer73

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Registered: 2009-01-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

Just tried obconf;
obconf: error while loading shared libraries: libobrender.so.21: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What's up?

EDIT: reinstalled obconf and now it complains that I probably haven't installed openbox correctly? Just did a standard update! Something is not ok.

follow this link

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25602

on the end someone writed:

obconf 2.0.3 doesn't build with OpenBox 3.5.0

Archer73

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Registered: 2009-01-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

let me understand
if i install openbox from shell

pacman -S openbox

i can't use icons?

Correct. The Arch package is compiled without icons support. You need to compile your own Openbox.

thank you so much i will try

swanson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-02-05

Posts: 759

Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

Found out that obconf won't build at all, yet.

cesura

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From: Tallinn, Estonia

Registered: 2010-01-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

No need to recompile, I rebuilt Openbox with imlib2 support and pushed it into community. Icons for all!

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

you are my hero! thanks a lot!

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Kooothor

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Registered: 2008-08-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

No need to recompile, I rebuilt Openbox with imlib2 support and pushed it into community. Icons for all!

Thank you

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Archer73

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

No need to recompile, I rebuilt Openbox with imlib2 support and pushed it into community. Icons for all!

can you write the link please?

ataraxia

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Registered: 2007-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Openbox 3.5 don't show menu icons

No need to recompile, I rebuilt Openbox with imlib2 support and pushed it into community. Icons for all!

can you write the link please?

It is just openbox 3.5.0-2 (or later) from community. No special separate package.