[openbox] Handling long sub-menus more gracefully

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, tim hall wrote:

> Hi list.
> 
> I'm new to openbox,
> 
> I'm running ob3 on Debian/testing. I have a couple of sub-menus, notably
> Debian > apps > system and Debian > apps > tools sub-menus that are too 
> long for my screen.
> 
> For various reasons, I don't want to reduce the text size or use 
> Debian's automatic menu configuration system to split them up into 
> further sub-menus (or columns ;-). My ideal would be to be able to use 
> the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the sub-menus up & down. AFAICS 
> it is not possible to specify mouse-bindings in the context of the menu, 
> or have I failed to understand the documentation?
> 
> I can deal with the .xml files and themerc format, but the hardcode is 
> beyond me. I'm wondering if the xorStyle and/or warpPointer options 
> would help me here. If anyone was able to explain if it is possible to 
> configure the menu behaviour or at least make it jump around slower and 
> where I would need to make these changes, I'd be grateful.
> 
> cheers
> 
> tim hall

There is nothing you can do about too long menus without writing some code 
(which you are welcome to do)

--
Mikael Magnusson