[openbox] Adding to an existing openbox menu

General general at musically.me.uk
Mon Dec 12 09:44:31 EST 2022


On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 08:46:31 -0500
Jim Anderson <jjanders at ptd.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm have been using openbox for years. Going back a few years, it was 
>pretty easy to change openbox menus. The debian distribution I use now 
>uses jgmenu to generate menus. The jgmenu system appears fairly complex 
>and to be honest I have little interest in taking days or weeks to learn 
>the system. However, I would like to learn enough to:
>
>A) Add my own static menu items to the existing top level menu
>
>B) Add static sub-menus to the static menus that I create.
>
>Can anyone advise how to do this, point me to examples, or point me to 
>documentation that I should look it?
>
>I have looked at http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Community_portal, but I 
>cannot find a simple answer to my questions there.
>
>Jim A.

It's been a long time since I've done this, but I always just edited the
entries directly.

/home/will/.config/openbox/menu.xml

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