[openbox] Two Separate Menus: root-menu and Debian menu

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 13:36:45 EDT 2009


On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, rent0n wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to use two different menus on my openbox setup, do you think it's 
> possible?
> The first one is the classical root-menu, which i like to modify manually 
> editing the ./config/openbox/menu.xml file
> The second one should be the Debian Menu which i would like to call with a 
> different mousebind, say Shift + Right Click.
>
> So i installed the menu package and i decommented these two lines on the 
> rc.xml file:
>
>    <file>/var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml</file>
>    <file>debian-menu.xml</file>
> After that  i created the new mousebind (S-Right) to show debian menu, 
> specyfing "Debian" as menu id.
>
> Everything seemed to work fine as i was able to call the two different menus 
> separately, with the two different mousebinds.
> The big problem is that some categories in my orginal root-menu (Graphics, 
> Office, System) are now filled with the debian menu stuff, also if the 
> original menu.xml has not been modified.
>
> Anyone knows a way to use root-menu and debian menu separately without 
> interferences?
> It would be so useful!

Make sure you don't use any of the same menu ids in your menu as the 
debian menu, they're global.

--
Mikael Magnusson


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