[openbox] open pipemenu in menu

[vlad]

does the script itself work?
i get following:
"
 $ perl obam.pl
 syntax error at obam.pl line 21, near "my "
 Execution of obam.pl aborted due to compilation errors
"

vlad


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:23:28AM +0100, Thomas Hinterberger wrote:
>
>>> From: Thomas Hinterberger <kult-ex at aon.at>
>>> Subject: Re: [openbox] open pipemenu in menu
>>> To: openbox at icculus.org
>>> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 3:47 PM
>>> on your suggestion I get a sytax error
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0"
>>> encoding="utf-8"?>
>>> <openbox_menu
>>> xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/menu">
>>>  <menu id="root-menu"
>>> label="openbox">
>>>      <menu id="Programme"/>
>>>  </menu>
>>>  <menu execute=".config/openbox/obam.pl"
>>> id="Programme" label="Programme"/>
>>> </openbox_menu>
>>>
>>> like this it is accapted,
>>>
>>> but my real problem is, that I have no menu entries -
>>> nothing, just a very very little black box
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I guess that my first question, when looking at the obam.pl script would have to be if you have anything in any of the paths that are listed in the APPSDIR.
>>
>> And second thing that came to mind.  Did you set obam.pl as executable??
>>
>> __
>> Knute
> both done:
>
> tom at localhost: ~/.config/openbox $ ls -l
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom    272 Dez 17 22:38 menu.xml
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom   3328 Dez 18 08:38 obam.pl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  22768 Dez  6 22:22 rc.xml
>
> tom at localhost: /usr/share/applications $ ls
> audacious.desktop
> cactusjukebox.desktop
> defaults.list
> emelfm2.desktop
> and much more .....
>

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