[openbox] Images in the menu

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Tue Oct 26 08:35:11 EDT 2004


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Holly Bostick wrote:

> Looking at the setup, what we know as the 'Desktops' menu appears to be the 
> client-list-menu (I'm sure you all knew this, but hey).
>
> The configuration for this internal menu isn't set in the menu.xml, rc.xml or 
> menu.xsd, but it must be set somewhere, and I would imagine that looking at 
> it would be the first thing to do to see if there is some kind of syntax that 
> could be added to the user's menus to display icons (although I am fairly 
> certain that the menu is getting its information from some other task 
> management process, there must be some syntax that covers extracting the 
> associated icon and displaying it in the right location on the menu).
>
> Am I way off the mark, or does this pop a lightbulb over someone's head ;-) ?
>
> Holly

Openbox indeed supports showing icons in the menus. What it doesn't have 
any code for at all is loading icons from files. All the icons you see are 
grabbed directly from the clients via the X server or compiled into 
Openbox.

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Mikael Magnusson



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