[openbox] menu and submenus

Marius Nita marius at cs.pdx.edu
Thu Jan 1 18:46:07 EST 2004


On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:37:40AM -0600, Richard Witt wrote:
> I tried searching the archives and of course reading the docs and either
> i just didnt see what im looking for or i just dont understand it.
> 
> i have ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and in it what i want to do is instead
> of having one huge menu.xml i want to break it out into smaller files
> and have entries in menu.xml to read those other menus. I thought i
> understood this from the docs and was doing it right. I have in my
> ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml 
> 
> <menu>
> <file>menu.xml</file>
> <file>/home/rich/.config/openbox/apps.xml</file>

These need to be reversed. Since menu.xml refers to apps.xml, apps.xml
needs to be loaded first.

Also, since apps.xml is in the ob config directory, you can just say

 <file>apps.xml</file>

Hope this helps.



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