[openbox] openbox menu icon set

Brian Mattern rephorm at rephorm.com
Sun Jun 16 02:02:51 EDT 2013


The phrase "root menu" has long been used to refer to the menu presented
when clicking on the root window. (Google '"root menu" X11' if you don't
believe me.)

Brian

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, Das wrote:

> Ahh ok...
> 
> As I understand it, it's simply known as the 'Openbox Menu' it's certainly
> not a root menu, it is definitely only run as a user, so I would use not
> use the word 'root' so as to not confuse...
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Wujek Srujek <wujek.srujek at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > No, I'm not ;d The root menu is the menu that get's shown when I
> > right-click on the 'desktop', which is the X root window, and no, it
> > isn't a window run by root ;d For lack of a better term, I baptized it
> > 'root menu' - I don't know what it's called in OB - and nested menus
> > are 'submenus'.
> >
> > wujek
> >
> > On 6/15/13, Das <dasfox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What do you mean root menu? I hope you're not running Linux as root?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Johannes Schaffrath <
> > > johannes.schaffrath at web.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> the icons in the submenu are a part of your used theme.
> > >> You can get icons in your root menu when you set in the rc.xml the
> > >> <showIcons> tag inside the <menu> tag to yes. After that, you are able
> > to
> > >> declare the path to the desired icon in the menu.xml.
> > >>
> > >> An example:
> > >>
> > >> <item label="xterm" icon="/usr/share/icons/**
> > >> hicolor/scalable/apps/mc.svg">
> > >> <action name="Execute"><execute>
> > >> xterm -e mc
> > >> </execute></action>
> > >>
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