[openbox] Font size of desktop menu and openbox-xdgmenu

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Stephan wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Using Ubuntu 8.04; openbox package from Ubuntu; openbox-session;
> gnome-settings-manager; GDM; Gnome installed.
>
> 1. The font size of the desktop menu is very small after a fresh (re)boot.
> When I restart openbox (via menu), the font size gets, set as configured in
> Gnome, bigger. This is not a big problem, but a bit annoying. The reason for
> this is that gnome-settings-daemon needs a while to set everything. Meanwhile
> openbox started and though everything else is perfect, the menu font is not
> set. Changeing the font size in obconf does work, until I restart openbox
> and the font gets even bigger - looks like about two sizes (8>10;10>12;...).
> I added a "sleep 5" right after "gnome-settings-daemon &" in the autostart.sh,
> which does the trick. However, the sleep time is soley dependent on the speed
> of the PC. Since I put this on a Linux LiveCD, which will run on many
> differnt machines, this is not a very good option.
> Any idea on how to fix this? Anyone?
>
> 2. I came across a quirk with openbox-xdgmenu.
> While "openbox-xdgmenu /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu" works nicely with
> the locale de_DE.UTF-8, it does not with en_US.UTF-8. I only get a tiny box,
> hinting there should be a menu.
>
> # ~/.xsession-errors --->
>
> Entity: line 179: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
> <menu id="xdg-menu-Sound & Video" label="Sound & Video">
>                          ^
> Entity: line 179: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
> <menu id="xdg-menu-Sound & Video" label="Sound & Video">
>                                                ^
> Openbox-Message: Invalid output from pipe-menu 'openbox-xdgmenu
> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu'
>
> <---
>
> I get the same error in Ubuntu 8.10 x64, too!

If the german translation doesn't contain a & then that is why it works. 
You (the script) have to change any xml reserved chars to their escaped 
versions.

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Mikael Magnusson