[openbox] how to change language for pipemenus

[TT]

Frank McCormick wrote:
> Well I found one of the problems -- when the extra needed Perl files 
> (Linux/dump.pm etc etc) were installed they went into 
> /usr/local/share/perl  instead of /usr/share/perl.
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> I fixed that by copying them over
oh please don't do that. so much can go wrong. are you sure perl can't 
find them otherwise? that would be a serious problem with your distro's 
packet management.
or maybe you can reinstall those packages, this time to /usr/share?
> - but now when I insert a pipe menu using obmenu-generator using 
> OBMenu...I get invalid output.
openbox is very roundabout with this error message - could be anything.
do this:
obmenu-generator -i -p> sometextfile
then, in menu.xml, change the pipemenu's command to
cat /full/path/to/sometextfile
now you can open sometextfile in an editor and try to find & repair the 
error manually. this should give you an idea of what went wrong.
btw, what distro/system are you running?
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> The line I'm using is "obmenu-generator -i -p" which according to the 
> docs should generate a pipe menu.
>
> I haven't figured out how to include a static menu in menu.xml yet. 
> The whole system is confusing to me...or maybe I'm getting old :)
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> On 10/24/2014 05:35 PM, TT wrote:
>> sorry, the conversation had already evolved when i sent my last 
>> answer...
>> anyhow, that's trizen's script, a good one.
>> it requires your attention: there should be 2 files in
>> ~/.config/obmenu-generator, schema.pl and config.pl.
>> hopefully they can be adjusted to display in english again. look at the
>> files, they contain some sort of documentation.
>> if you don't have them, copy them over from /etc/xdg/obmenu-generator/
>> btw, i'm using the same script and just updated it and it's still 
>> english.
>>
>> good luck.
>>
>>
>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>>> On 10/24/2014 03:51 PM, TT wrote:
>>>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>>> Strange problem today I have never run across before. I inserted a
>>>>> pipemenu in my menu today- it works...but displays in Italian. I have
>>>>> exported LANG=en_US.UTF8 and LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 in the environemnt
>>>>> in ~/.config/openbox but nothing changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the other menu items are in English.
>>>>>
>>>>> I must be missing something.
>>>> it might be helpful to post information about the actual pipemenu -
>>>> either the whole script if it's not too long, or a link to where it 
>>>> can
>>>> be found.
>>>> maybe it _is_ italian?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the readme in the file:
>>>
>>> obmenu-generator
>>> ================
>>>
>>> A fast pipe/static menu generator for the Openbox Window Manager, with
>>> support for icons.
>>>
>>> <hr>
>>>
>>> usage: obmenu-generator [options]
>>>
>>> Options:
>>>
>>>     -p  : (re)generate a pipe menu
>>>     -s  : (re)generate a static menu
>>>     -o  : static menu file (default: ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml)
>>>     -m  : menu id (default: 'root-menu')
>>>     -r  : regenerate the config files
>>>     -i  : use icons in menus
>>>     -d  : regenerate icons.db (with -i)
>>>     -u  : update the config file
>>>     -R  : reconfigure openbox
>>>
>>>
>>> Generating a simple static menu:
>>>
>>>     obmenu-generator -s
>>>
>>> Generating a pipe menu with icons:
>>>
>>>     obmenu-generator -p -i
>>>
>>> Reconfiguring openbox:
>>>
>>>     obmenu-generator -R
>>>
>>> * <b>Config file:</b> ~/.config/obmenu-generator/config.pl
>>> * <b>Schema file:</b> ~/.config/obmenu-generator/schema.pl
>>>
>>> There are several links to the file on the net - one in the
>>> GIT repository the author uses. That's where I got my
>>> copy.
>>>
>>> It's in English not Italian....but for some reason it doesn't
>>> respect locale's.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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