[openbox] Re: OB panel and side main menu

mfitzgib mfitzgib at simla.colostate.edu
Tue Dec 13 12:30:59 EST 2005


>> I just installed ob, is there a panel for it or is fbpanel one of the
>> solutions?

Personally, I wasn't too fond of fbpanel when I tried it. I ended up using 
pypanel, which I love.

>> How do i activate the main menu to come up when i click on either side
>> of the screen as in blackbox?

Don't know if there's a way to do this directly (but someone else might know 
better). I use control-right-click to bring mine up. Here's the mouse binding 
from ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml:

     <mousebind button="C-Right" action="Press">
      <action name="ShowMenu"><menu>root-menu</menu></action>
    </mousebind>

>I meant to say ob 3.2-7, i used obconf for the dock (left/vertical) but
>still on certain screens it doesn't work.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'on certain screens it doesn't work', but 
I did have a problem on my Gentoo system where obconf just wouldn't respond 
(wouldn't write anything to my config, wouldn't exit, sort of like the person 
who wrote it only made the GUI, without making it do anything) and I never 
really figured out why. I've since made that box command line only (its a 
server anyway), and I've never had any similar problems on my Ubuntu box. But 
a little more description of the problem wouldn't go amiss.

Slainte,
Matthew

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