[openbox] pipe menus

[Dana Jansens]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:

> About pipe menus, to which concept I just started paying attention, I
> would like to confirm whether I got the picture: when one such menu is
> launched, via a hot key, a certain program "COMMAND" is called, its
> output (which should be a syntactically correct xml menu file) is read and
> used to display a menu. What if the data the menu was based on change
> while the menu is being displayed? Is the menu updated only when
> launched?
>

Yes. The script is run and its output makes a menu.  The output can't
chance, the script can only be run again, the next time the menu is shown.


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