[openbox] 1) underscored initial letters at some menus 2) openbox site

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 5/14/23, u34 at net9.ga <u34 at net9.ga> wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/14/23, u34 at net9.ga <u34 at net9.ga> wrote:
>> > 1) Suggestion: have underscored initial letters at some menus
>> > Since client-list-combined-menu, and root-menu, can be navigated by the
>> > first letter of their entries, isn't it customary to have that letter
>> > with
>> > an underscore?
>>
>> The underscore is only displayed if the first letter isn't the first
>> character of the title in the client list menus. If you want
>> underscores in the root-menu you can put them there yourself.
>> http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Menus#Specifying_menu_shortcuts
>
> 1) I currently have an entry such as
>
>     <menu id="apps-accessories-menu" label="Accessories">
>
> in menu.xml. It does get activated by pressing the `a' key. I tried to
> follow
> the URL you wrote, but couldn't made it displayed with an underscore under
> A. I did run openbox --reconfigure after each edit of the file. Must I
> fully restart openbox to see the underscore? Are there more possible
> misunderstandings on my part? I tried "_Accessories", "__Accessories",
> "__ Accessories", and perhaps few other combinations.
>
> 2) How can I get an underscore for client-list-combined-menu? Openbox
> dynamically writes the entries for whatever windows that are opened,
> doesn't it?

Like I said, the underscore is only displayed if the shortcut key is
not the first character of the entry. Eg, if a window is called
"[hello]" the h will be underscored because [ cannot be a shortcut
key.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson