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

rent0n rent0n at email.it
Mon Oct 5 17:47:00 EDT 2009


Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't know if i understood well..You mean there's no way to have a 
System, Office and Graphics submenu inside my root-menu or they will be 
"overwrited" by the debian menu, right?

Thank you,  
    rent0n




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