[openbox] Announcing bgmenu for openbox

[Tim Riley]

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 13:20, Michael Rasile wrote:
> Greetings!
> My apologies for being so vague. What I don't understand is the format for
> the line that goes in the menu.xml:
> <menu id="bg-menu" label="Backgrounds" execute="/location/of/bgmenu.rb"/>
> 
> I put this line, changing the /location of bgmenu.rb, of course, to point to
> the script, into my menu.xml.  Should the line be exactly as you state it.
> That is, is it in the correct format and should I type it exactly as you
> gave it. There are no errors to report because nothing shows up in the menu
> to execute. Also, just exactly what should go in the ~/.openbox/bgmenurc. I
> found that a little confusing: /directory/of/images mode. Should that be:
> ~/.openbox/backgrounds full. Sorry, but I find the new format for ob3 a
> little more complex than ob2. I suppose I should just continue to use ob2,
> but it bothers me that I can't get your script to work. It certainly is not
> the fault of the script. If I could at least get the item Backgrounds to
> show up in my menu, I would be happy. :-) Also, which menu should I be
> editing, the one in /usr/local/share/openbox or ~/.openbox/menu.xml??
> I hope I've explained this clearly. If not, thanks for taking the time to
> respond.
> 

The line to go in your menu (as Marius stated in his mail in this
thread), should be like this:

<menu id="bg-menu" label="Backgrounds" execute="bgmenu.rb"/>

However, you must specify the full path to bgmenu.rb.  For example, I
keep that script in my ~/.openbox/bin directory.  So, I have this in my
menu.xml file (inside my root menu):

<menu id="bg-menu" label="Backgrounds"
execute="~/.openbox/bin/bgmenu.rb"/>

You should just change the contents of the 'execute' property to reflect
wherever you have put the bgmenu.rb script.

Secondly, yes, "~/.openbox/backgrounds full" would be a valid line in
your bsetbgrc, assuming that directory actually exists.

To check if the bgmenu works, you can just run its on its own, like
this:
./bgmenu.rb

If the output looks like a lot of XML, then it is  working fine, and you
should have no problems seeing it in your menu.  However, if an error
message appears, or no XML, post it here and we can solve you problem.

One thing to note is that you can't have any blank lines in your
bsetbgrc file.  This is a bug which I will need to fix, but you can work
around it by simply deleting any empty lines in that file.

May your box always be open,

Tim
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