[openbox] A completely n00b question regarding the dirsmenu script...

[Alan Ansell]

Thank you for helping with this - apologies for the tardy reply, I just reinstalled the entire OS!

I can see now that I didn't include much helpful information, sorry about that. In truth though you've helped me enough because if it cannot be used in a panel script, then... that's the end of the experiment anyway.

While I'll continue to play around in Openbox (it is so adaptable), I feel I'm in danger of trying to reinvent err... the panel and taskbar, for which there are already plenty of substitutes without my complicating things by trying to reinvent one.

I think I'll call it a day for now and get on with something more productive.

Thanks again :)

*alan ansell painting
Itzac
France*

**We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.
  Aristotle**




----- Original message -----
From: "D.T." <ohnonot-github at posteo.de>
To: openbox mailing list <openbox at icculus.org>
Subject: Re: [openbox] A completely n00b question regarding the dirsmenu script...
Date: Sunday, 11 July 2021 08:23

Hello,
I guess you're talking about one of the ancient pipemenus on the
openbox wiki - this one
http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Pipemenus:Dirsmenu ?

You don't tell us much - what exactly is going wrong? Command oputput?

E.g., I just tried, I get this error:

$ testing
Can't locate File/Find/Rule.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
File::Find::Rule module) (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.34/site_perl
/usr/share/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.34/core_perl
/usr/share/perl5/core_perl) at /home/mus/bin/testy line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ohnonot/bin/testing line 4.

Anyhow, this is a pipemenu script. Its output is specific to openbox'
menu.
As such, you cannot wrangle it into a taskbar (in any case that would
be specific to your taskbar; but most have plugins that do what you
want).

On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 15:01 +0200, Alan Ansell wrote:
> Hi all, just subbed to ask this very basic question:
> 
> I'm building myself an openbox DE from the ground up. I've got basic
> functions working, but very interested in the "dirsmenu" script
> particularly if I can wangle it into a taskbar.
> 
> I've got as far as saving the code for openbox:dirsmenu into a .pl file
> somewhere inside my ~/.config/openbox/* but now I don't know how to use
> it.
> 
> I tried a few things in cmd like "perl dirsmenu.pl" (I'm running Gentoo
> Linux) but nothing strikes me as obvious.
> 
> Can someone please help me get this excellent menu item functioning?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> alan ansell painting
> Itzac
> France
> We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a
> habit.
>   Aristotle
> 
> 
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