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

[u34 at net9.ga]

Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I think there a misunderstanding. Possibly because I used the wrong term. 
I was trying to suggest a small bar under the lettet that is used as the 
short cut key. As in the small image at 
https://i.postimg.cc/nLLhfG4H/firefox-view-menu.jpg . It is an image of 
firefox view menu. Note the small bars under the letters T (Toolbars), 
e (Sidebar), Z (Zoom), y (Page style), c (Repair Text Encoding), F (Full Screen).

For me, there are no such bars in openbox menus. Since 
client-list-combined-menu is generated dynamically, is there a way to  
have another shortcut character, other then the first character of the 
entry? As for root-menu, I don't see a small bar under the character that 
is used as the shortcut, even when the shortcut is not the first character 
of the entry.

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