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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 26.10.2014 01:16, schrieb Frank
McCormick:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:544C2F5A.4030500@videotron.ca" type="cite">On
10/25/2014 07:04 PM, Micha wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Am 25.10.2014 23:20, schrieb Frank
McCormick:
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<blockquote type="cite">One and the same. See my reply to "TT"
on that forum. When I didn't
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get any responses here initially, I went to linuxforums to see
if
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anyone there had some suggestions. I have tried about 4 menu
utilities
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for Openbox - one of two which work properly I found at a site
in
<br>
France....the other is the one provided in the Debian
repositories.
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First, thanks for bringing this up, I wasn't aware of
obmenu-generator.
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I googled a little around and found out, there are some others
too.
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But have you considered the mostobvious solution, the "inbuild"
Debian
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menu ?
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It's more kind of a half-automatic solution, but it works nearly
perfect
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for
<br>
all applications installed with your package manager.
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The only issue there is, it does not find all icons, leaving a
space then.
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The OB doc "Help:Menus - The Debian menu" explains everything in
detail.
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The docs are also very helpful to get you starting configuring
the rc.xml
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and the menu.xml, there is no need for a generator doing it for
you.
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It is very, very simple, and once you got the trick, you can't
stop
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building
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static and dynamic menus on your own, believe me !
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<br>
Micha
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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 :)
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I did find one which "worked out of the box"....from a French
website
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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 :)
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There are icons in the menus, if you have set
<applicationIcons>yes</applicationIcons><br>
in the menu section in the rc.xml, after the mouse section .<br>
Try to get familiar with the Xml-code, choose a nice color for it in
your editor, and most<br>
important, use a clean formatting style which is easy readable.<br>
And of course, <b>you</b> should not bug it, it's extreme <span
class="b5">sensitive</span> !<br>
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Micha<br>
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