<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for helping with this - apologies for the tardy reply, I just reinstalled the entire OS!<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">I can see now that I didn't include much helpful information, sorry about that. In truth though you've helped me enough because if it cannot be used in a panel script, then... that's the end of the experiment anyway.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">While I'll continue to play around in Openbox (it is so adaptable), I feel I'm in danger of trying to reinvent err... the panel and taskbar, for which there are already plenty of substitutes without my complicating things by trying to reinvent one.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">I think I'll call it a day for now and get on with something more productive.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks again :)</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div id="sig924961"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;" class="signature"><b><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(192, 192, 192);"><span class="size" style="font-size:13px;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">alan
ansell painting</span><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana;"><br>Itzac<br>France</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;" class="signature"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><i><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(128, 128, 128);">We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a
habit.</span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(128, 128, 128);"><br></span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(128, 128, 128);"> Aristotle</span></i></span></b></p><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div>----- Original message -----<br></div><div>From: "D.T." <<a href="mailto:ohnonot-github@posteo.de">ohnonot-github@posteo.de</a>><br></div><div>To: openbox mailing list <<a href="mailto:openbox@icculus.org">openbox@icculus.org</a>><br></div><div>Subject: Re: [openbox] A completely n00b question regarding the dirsmenu script...<br></div><div>Date: Sunday, 11 July 2021 08:23<br></div><div><br></div><div type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Hello,<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">I guess you're talking about one of the ancient pipemenus on the<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">openbox wiki - this one<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Pipemenus:Dirsmenu">http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Pipemenus:Dirsmenu</a> ?<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">You don't tell us much - what exactly is going wrong? Command oputput?<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">E.g., I just tried, I get this error:<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">$ testing<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Can't locate File/Find/Rule.pm in @INC (you may need to install the<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">File::Find::Rule module) (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.34/site_perl<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">/usr/share/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.34/core_perl<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">/usr/share/perl5/core_perl) at /home/mus/bin/testy line 4.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ohnonot/bin/testing line 4.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Anyhow, this is a pipemenu script. Its output is specific to openbox'<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">menu.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">As such, you cannot wrangle it into a taskbar (in any case that would<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">be specific to your taskbar; but most have plugins that do what you<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">want).<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 15:01 +0200, Alan Ansell wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> Hi all, just subbed to ask this very basic question:<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> I'm building myself an openbox DE from the ground up. I've got basic<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> functions working, but very interested in the "dirsmenu" script<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> particularly if I can wangle it into a taskbar.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> I've got as far as saving the code for openbox:dirsmenu into a .pl file<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> somewhere inside my ~/.config/openbox/* but now I don't know how to use<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> it.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> I tried a few things in cmd like "perl dirsmenu.pl" (I'm running Gentoo<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> Linux) but nothing strikes me as obvious.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> Can someone please help me get this excellent menu item functioning?<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> Many thanks<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> alan ansell painting<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> Itzac<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> France<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> habit.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> Aristotle<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> _______________________________________________<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> openbox mailing list<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <a href="mailto:openbox@icculus.org">openbox@icculus.org</a><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> <a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox</a><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">___<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Vaccines for everyone!<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Donate to the COVAX alliance:<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://gogiveone.org/">https://gogiveone.org/</a> (WHO)<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.gavi.org/donate">https://www.gavi.org/donate</a> (Gavi)<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">_______________________________________________<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">openbox mailing list<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:openbox@icculus.org">openbox@icculus.org</a><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox</a><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></body></html>