[openbox] Adding to an existing openbox menu

[Dave Serls]

I've got a small problem with a prepend.csv file.
The Apps-generated menu always is attached to the last submenu.
How to make it return to the root?

On 12/12/22 09:53, Russell Belair wrote:
> Oops, that last part should have been:
> 
> 
> "I always setup my menus, whether it is with openbox's menu.xml or with 
> 3-party programs like jgmenu, statically"
> 
> 
> Russ
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     -----Original message-----
>     *From:* Jim Anderson <jjanders at ptd.net>
>     *Sent:* Monday December 12th, 2022 11:35
>     *To:* openbox at icculus.org
>     *Subject:* Re: [openbox] Adding to an existing openbox menu
> 
> 
>     Yes, that is what I have always done in the past. Recently, the Linux
>     distribution that I use started using' jgmenu' to generate menus. Until
>     I received your response, I thought 'jgmenu' is part of openbox, but I
>     now think that is incorrect. I have to step back and figure out what the
>     current jgmenu flow is.
> 
>     Apparently, jgmenu generates the menus on the system and feeds that to
>     openbox somehow. I have been trying to change menu.xml and I believe
>     that is not valid now.
> 
>     On 12/12/22 09:44, General wrote:
>     > On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 08:46:31 -0500
>     > Jim Anderson <jjanders at ptd.net> wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> I'm have been using openbox for years. Going back a few years, it was
>     >> pretty easy to change openbox menus. The debian distribution I use now
>     >> uses jgmenu to generate menus. The jgmenu system appears fairly complex
>     >> and to be honest I have little interest in taking days or weeks to learn
>     >> the system. However, I would like to learn enough to:
>     >>
>     >> A) Add my own static menu items to the existing top level menu
>     >>
>     >> B) Add static sub-menus to the static menus that I create.
>     >>
>     >> Can anyone advise how to do this, point me to examples, or point me to
>     >> documentation that I should look it?
>     >>
>     >> I have looked at http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Community_portal, but I
>     >> cannot find a simple answer to my questions there.
>     >>
>     >> Jim A.
>     > It's been a long time since I've done this, but I always just edited the
>     > entries directly.
>     >
>     > /home/will/.config/openbox/menu.xml
>     >
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