[openbox] Two Separate Menus: root-menu and Debian menu

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 17:50:53 EDT 2009


On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, rent0n wrote:

> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>  On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, rent0n wrote:
>> 
>> >  Hi,
>> >  I'm trying to use two different menus on my openbox setup, do you think 
>> >  it's possible?
>> >  The first one is the classical root-menu, which i like to modify 
>> >  manually editing the ./config/openbox/menu.xml file
>> >  The second one should be the Debian Menu which i would like to call with 
>> >  a different mousebind, say Shift + Right Click.
>> > 
>> >  So i installed the menu package and i decommented these two lines on the 
>> >  rc.xml file:
>> > 
>> >     <file>/var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml</file>
>> >     <file>debian-menu.xml</file>
>> >  After that  i created the new mousebind (S-Right) to show debian menu, 
>> >  specyfing "Debian" as menu id.
>> > 
>> >  Everything seemed to work fine as i was able to call the two different 
>> >  menus separately, with the two different mousebinds.
>> >  The big problem is that some categories in my orginal root-menu 
>> >  (Graphics, Office, System) are now filled with the debian menu stuff, 
>> >  also if the original menu.xml has not been modified.
>> > 
>> >  Anyone knows a way to use root-menu and debian menu separately without 
>> >  interferences?
>> >  It would be so useful!
>>
>>  Make sure you don't use any of the same menu ids in your menu as the
>>  debian menu, they're global.
>> 
>
> I don't know if i understood well..You mean there's no way to have a System, 
> Office and Graphics submenu inside my root-menu or they will be "overwrited" 
> by the debian menu, right?

No.

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Mikael Magnusson


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