[openbox] Obmenu 1.0

Peter N. Spotts pspotts at alum.mit.edu
Thu Feb 9 10:49:39 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 10:38 -0500, mike obrien wrote:
> howdy,
> 
> i'm having trouble. i installed obmenu-1.0 and when i enter 'obmenu' into the terminal, i get the message - Error: "/home/'username'/.config/openbox/menu.xml" not found.  i think i did everything correctly: untarred it, cd obmenu, 'python set.up install', the install ran, i got a new prompt. i have python2.4, python2.4-gtk2 and python2.4-glade2 all installed. i'm using ubuntu breezy. i ran across the same problem with obmenu-0.9something.
> 
> i'm an end user who is frequently in over his head, so i might be just doing something stupid. no idea.
> 
> mike

Mike,

Copy the menu.xml file in the  /usr/local/etc/xdg/openbox  directory
into /home/~/.config/openbox

You may have to set up that openbox subdirectory within /.config, but
once the menu file is there, obmenu will read it.

Best,

Pete
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