[openbox] menu not recognized

Marcus Schätzle kickshaw22 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 19:01:34 EDT 2020


Or was this simply forgotten in the example and this is actually present in
a larger original menu file?

Am Mo., 13. Juli 2020 um 00:58 Uhr schrieb Marcus Schätzle <
kickshaw22 at gmail.com>:

> Your example menu has two issues:
> - the closing </menu> tag is missing between </item> and <openbox_menu>
> - the menu id has to be "root-menu" instead of "menu_test".
>
> If these two changes are applied, the item shows up.
>
> Am So., 12. Juli 2020 um 23:37 Uhr schrieb Philip Mundhenk <
> philip.mundhenk at protonmail.ch>:
>
>> I have file
>> ~/.config/openbox/menu_test.xml
>>
>> which contains what's between the #######s:
>> ##########################################################################
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> <openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/" xmlns:xsi="
>> http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="
>> http://openbox.org/                 file:///usr/share/openbox/menu.xsd">
>>     <menu id="menu_test" label="menu test">
>>
>>   <item label="proof it works">
>>     <action name="Execute">
>>       <command>xmessage Hello</command>
>>       <startupnotify>
>>         <enabled>yes</enabled>
>>       </startupnotify>
>>     </action>
>>   </item>
>>
>> </openbox_menu>
>>
>> ##########################################################################
>> or here, if you prefer:
>> https://pastebin.com/R7VqSqRQ
>> per stat: Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx)
>> so perms shouldn't be the issue.
>>
>>
>> But when I attempt to invoke it, I get a zenity-like box with the title
>> "Openbox" and the error message:
>>
>> Attempted to access menu "menu_test" but it does not exist
>>
>> I can't see anything weird about the file. It has an extra newline at the
>> end per linux conventions. Except for the id and label values, which are
>> unique, it has the same header as other menus located in the same
>> directory. They work fine. Is there some low limit to the number of menus I
>> can define?
>>
>> This is under pclos, the plain Openbox version. It's in the Mandrake
>> family of distros and nobody at that forum has any ideas.
>>
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