[openbox] how to change language for pipemenus

[Micha]

Am 28.10.2014 17:41, schrieb Frank McCormick:
> On 10/25/2014 08:09 PM, Micha wrote:
>> 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 !
>
>    That worked here. But not all items have icons. I guess the system 
> can't find some of them.

What I mentioned, here it only shows ca. 60 % of the icons.
But that is normal, not all programs have icons.  But what is evil,
is, that the menu-xdg, or whoever is responsible here, does not
include any dummy-icons instead of spaces.

**
> I should check to see if I have the same problem as you do...but I 
> hesitate to meddle in the rc.xml file again :)
>
>
What problem do you mean, that I can't get rid of the icons anymore ?
Yes, frankly, I regret, that I switched the icons on, just to see, if 
I'm telling
no bullshit.  But that's really weird, how does that happen, idk...:-P

The OB config files are very elemental, they *are* Openbox, look at some
really well formatted, clear example Xmls.
There are some in the OB docs, they are not to large, and well explained.
When you are familiar with the Xmls, your rc.xml and your menu.xml can
easily contain more than 1000 lines each, and you are not ready...:-)

Micha


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