[openbox] Announcing bgmenu for openbox

[Marius Nita]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:50:12PM -0500, Michael Rasile wrote:
> My apologies for being so vague. What I don't understand is the format for
> the line that goes in the menu.xml:
> <menu id="bg-menu" label="Backgrounds" execute="/location/of/bgmenu.rb"/>
> 
> I put this line, changing the /location of bgmenu.rb, of course, to point to
> the script, into my menu.xml.  Should the line be exactly as you state it.
> That is, is it in the correct format and should I type it exactly as you
> gave it. There are no errors to report because nothing shows up in the menu
> to execute. Also, just exactly what should go in the ~/.openbox/bgmenurc. I
> found that a little confusing: /directory/of/images mode. Should that be:
> ~/.openbox/backgrounds full. Sorry, but I find the new format for ob3 a
> little more complex than ob2. I suppose I should just continue to use ob2,
> but it bothers me that I can't get your script to work. It certainly is not
> the fault of the script. If I could at least get the item Backgrounds to
> show up in my menu, I would be happy. :-) Also, which menu should I be
> editing, the one in /usr/local/share/openbox or ~/.openbox/menu.xml??
> I hope I've explained this clearly. If not, thanks for taking the time to
> respond.

you have to make that line part of your menu. so your menu.xml should
look like this:

<openbox_menu>
 <menu id="root" label="whatever">

  ...

  <menu id="bg-menu" label="Backgrounds" execute="/location/of/bgmenu.rb"/>

  ...

 </menu>
</openbox_menu>

i.e. the backgrounds menu will be a submenu of your root menu. you
should at least get an empty submenu named 'Backgrounds' at this
point, even if the script doesn't work.

good luck.