[openbox] how to change language for pipemenus

Micha maria.huana at gmx.de
Sat Oct 25 20:09:11 EDT 2014


Am 26.10.2014 01:16, schrieb Frank McCormick:
> On 10/25/2014 07:04 PM, Micha wrote:
>> Am 25.10.2014 23:20, schrieb Frank McCormick:
>>> One and the same. See my reply to "TT" on that forum. When I didn't
>>> get any responses here initially, I went to linuxforums to see if
>>> anyone there had some suggestions. I have tried about 4 menu utilities
>>> for Openbox - one of two which work properly I found at a site in
>>> France....the other is the one provided in the Debian repositories.
>>>
>>>
>> First, thanks for bringing this up, I wasn't aware of obmenu-generator.
>> I googled a little around and found out, there are some others too.
>>
>> But have you considered the mostobvious solution, the "inbuild" Debian
>> menu ?
>> It's more kind of a half-automatic solution, but it works nearly perfect
>> for
>> all applications installed with your package manager.
>> The only issue there is, it does not find all icons, leaving a space 
>> then.
>>
>> The OB doc "Help:Menus - The Debian menu" explains everything in detail.
>>
>> The docs are also very helpful to get you starting configuring the 
>> rc.xml
>> and the menu.xml, there is no need for a generator doing it for you.
>> It is very, very simple, and once you got the trick, you can't stop
>> building
>> static and dynamic menus on your own, believe me !
>>
>> Micha
>>
>>
>
>
>    I never did get obmenu-generator working properly - I had all sorts 
> of problems which may or may not have stemmed from the program..most 
> likely not :)
>
> I did find one which "worked out of the box"....from a French website
> it's called openbox-menu and once I had compiled it and did the 
> appropriate incantations over menu.xml and rc.xml...it worked 
> beautifully. The Debian one is also good...but there are no icons in 
> it's menu. Openbox is a great window manager...but the menu situation 
> (written in xml for Gods sake) bugs me no end. Good things there's a 
> GUI editor for the menus....I go cross-eyed looking at xml in a text 
> editor :)
>
>
>
>
There are icons in the menus, if you have set 
<applicationIcons>yes</applicationIcons>
in the menu section in the rc.xml, after the mouse section .
Try to get familiar with the Xml-code, choose a nice color for it in 
your editor, and most
important, use a clean formatting style which is easy readable.
And of course, *you* should not bug it, it's extreme sensitive !

Micha

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