[openbox] Can't create a valid menu.xml

[52midnight]

> You could try running openbox with strace. That should at least tell you
> if it is actually trying to open the file and failing, or bailing out
> before even trying.
>
> You'll need to redirect the output to a file, there's a lot of it. And
> you might need to install strace first.

Thanks for that. I'm using Gentoo so I'll have to "emerge" it. Small  
download, have it in motion and will read up ...