[openbox] Multiple menu files

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Wed Jul 7 22:06:43 EDT 2004


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Jamin W. Collins wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:53:24AM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
>>>
>>> When trying to use it I put the menu file in place as
>>> ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml
>>>
>>> <menu>
>>> <!-- You can specify more than one menu file in here and they are all
>>> loaded,
>>>      just don't make menu ids clash or, well, it'll be kind of pointless
>>>      -->
>>>
>>> <!-- system menu files on Debian systems -->
>>> <file>/var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml</file>
>>>
>>> <!-- default menu file (or custom one in $HOME/.config/openbox/) -->
>>> <file>menu.xml</file>
>>> </menu>
>>
>> And you think it's strange that your root menu disappears?
>
> Yes.
>
>> You are loading your personal menu.xml _instead of_ the default one,
>> not in addition to it. (I assume you don't have a debian-menu.xml)
>
> You assume wrong.  The /var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml does indeed
> exist and I would like to use my menu file in addition to it.  Based on
> the comments in the rc.xml I'd think what I did would work.
>
>> The default one is menu.xml, if you want to load both, you have to
>> call your own something else and add another <file>personal.xml</file>
>
> And if the debian-menu.xml does exist?

Then you aren't doing anything wrong afaict, since it works when i do that 
with your file. Check if there are any messages on stdout

--
Mikael Magnusson



More information about the openbox mailing list