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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 28.10.2014 17:41, schrieb Frank
McCormick:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:544FC71F.5070408@videotron.ca" type="cite">On
10/25/2014 08:09 PM, Micha wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Am 26.10.2014 01:16, schrieb Frank
McCormick:
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<blockquote 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
<br>
get any responses here initially, I went to linuxforums to
see if
<br>
anyone there had some suggestions. I have tried about 4
menu utilities
<br>
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.
<br>
I googled a little around and found out, there are some
others too.
<br>
<br>
But have you considered the mostobvious solution, the
"inbuild" Debian
<br>
menu ?
<br>
It's more kind of a half-automatic solution, but it works
nearly perfect
<br>
for
<br>
all applications installed with your package manager.
<br>
The only issue there is, it does not find all icons, leaving
a space
<br>
then.
<br>
<br>
The OB doc "Help:Menus - The Debian menu" explains
everything in detail.
<br>
<br>
The docs are also very helpful to get you starting
configuring the
<br>
rc.xml
<br>
and the menu.xml, there is no need for a generator doing it
for you.
<br>
It is very, very simple, and once you got the trick, you
can't stop
<br>
building
<br>
static and dynamic menus on your own, believe me !
<br>
<br>
Micha
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<br>
I never did get obmenu-generator working properly - I had
all sorts
<br>
of problems which may or may not have stemmed from the
program..most
<br>
likely not :)
<br>
<br>
I did find one which "worked out of the box"....from a French
website
<br>
it's called openbox-menu and once I had compiled it and did
the
<br>
appropriate incantations over menu.xml and rc.xml...it worked
<br>
beautifully. The Debian one is also good...but there are no
icons in
<br>
it's menu. Openbox is a great window manager...but the menu
situation
<br>
(written in xml for Gods sake) bugs me no end. Good things
there's a
<br>
GUI editor for the menus....I go cross-eyed looking at xml in
a text
<br>
editor :)
<br>
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There are icons in the menus, if you have set
<br>
<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
<br>
your editor, and most
<br>
important, use a clean formatting style which is easy readable.
<br>
And of course, *you* should not bug it, it's extreme sensitive !
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</blockquote>
<br>
That worked here. But not all items have icons. I guess the
system can't find some of them.
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</blockquote>
<br>
What I mentioned, here it only shows ca. 60 % of the icons.<br>
But that is normal, not all programs have icons. But what is evil,<br>
is, that the menu-xdg, or whoever is <span class="b5">responsible
here, does not<br>
include any dummy-icons instead of spaces.<br>
<br>
</span><b class="b4"> </b>
<blockquote cite="mid:544FC71F.5070408@videotron.ca" type="cite">I
should check to see if I have the same problem as you do...but I
hesitate to meddle in the rc.xml file again :)
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What problem do you mean, that I can't get rid of the icons anymore
?<br>
Yes, frankly, I regret, that I switched the icons on, just to see,
if I'm telling<br>
no bullshit. But that's really weird, how does that happen, idk...<span
class="moz-smiley-s4"><span> :-P </span></span><br>
<br>
The OB config files are very elemental, they <b>are</b> Openbox,
look at some<br>
really well formatted, clear example Xmls.<br>
There are some in the OB docs, they are not to large, and well
explained.<br>
When you are familiar with the Xmls, your rc.xml and your menu.xml
can<br>
easily contain more than 1000 lines each, and you are not ready...<span
class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
<br>
Micha<br>
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