[openbox] how to change language for pipemenus

[Frank McCormick]

   One and the same. See my reply to "TT" on that forum. When I didn't 
get any responses here initially, I went to linuxforums to see if anyone 
there had some suggestions. I have tried about 4 menu utilities for 
Openbox - one of two which work properly I found at a site in 
France....the other is the one provided in the Debian repositories.





On 10/25/2014 03:46 PM, TT wrote:
> i just noticed that someone named frank, from canada, using debian sid &
> openbox, has very similar problems, but with a different menu generator:
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux/203309-openbox-menu-problems-sid.html
>
>
> i'm starting to feel a little pissed off here...
>
> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> On 10/24/2014 07:19 PM, TT wrote:
>>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>   They weren't packages from Debian - they were tar balls I un-tared
>> compiled and installed using the makefile
>> I assumed at the time they went where they were "supposed to" but
>> they didn't.
>>
>> I'd have a heck of a job finding them again and reinstalling. It's
>> rapidly becoming a problem that is more than it's worth :)
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> From a terminal?
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>   I ran it from a terminal but it created a test file with only one
>> line...something about pipe menu sucessfully created
>>
>>> btw, what distro/system are you running?
>>
>>   Debian Sid
>>
>>>>
>>>> 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 :)
>>>>

>>
>> ////trimmed for length ////
>>
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> openbox mailing list
> openbox at icculus.org
> http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox


-- 
1984 was not meant as a blueprint for
democratic governments.