Update menu.xml

scorpion2782 · 2016-04-21 10:49:47

Hi,
how to update menu.xml after installing new apps? before i used menumaker, but i had to check the diff between files. exist an automatic method or script?
Thanks.

Horizon_Brave · 2016-04-21 16:29:15

Assuming you're running the default openbox menuing system? It should just be a matter of running the command:

update-menus

I don't do much work with menus, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong!

damo · 2016-04-21 17:14:31

Either add a new entry to menu.xml manually, or use the gui menu editor (obmenu) with Menu -> Preferences -> Openbox -> GUI Menu Editor

There is also a helpful menu entry: Menu -> Preferences -> Openbox -> How to Edit Menu

There are ways to have an auto-updating menu - search the forums for obamenu, Obmenu-generator, Debian menu

Horizon_Brave · 2016-04-21 17:14:54

Actually for my above command to work, you'll have to have the menus package installed:
sudo apt-cache show menu

Check this out:
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Menus

I also found that just editing the ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml file, then running:

openbox --reconfigure

works as well. At least it works for me by just simple edits....Sorry thinking aloud...

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2016-04-21 17:23:19)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-21 20:16:28

Get obmenu-generator from here:
https://software.opensuse.org/download. … -generator

Usage guide here:
http://lxlinux.com/obmenu-generator.html

johnraff · 2016-04-22 02:16:46

And the much simpler (and IMHO easier to use) obamenu here:
http://rmoe.anukis.de/obamenu.html

nobody0 · 2016-04-22 05:17:15

johnraff wrote:

And the much simpler (and IMHO easier to use) obamenu here:
http://rmoe.anukis.de/obamenu.html

Shouldn't such an easy menu be default in BL, rather than the archaic #! menu?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-22 06:34:54

ostrolek wrote:

Shouldn't such an easy menu be default in BL

No, the community prefer a non-auto-updating menu.

johnraff · 2016-04-22 06:50:31

The basic idea is to come to a community decision and go with that, while making it as easy as possible for people who'd like do do things differently to do so. Some day I might write a "HOWTO" about the various options, having tried a lot of them.

scorpion2782 · 2016-04-22 08:32:41

thanks. time ago i tried to use debian menu and work, but i don't like this solution. in another pc (with fedora) i used menumaker but whenever i need to search diff between old and new menu.xml

nobody0 · 2016-04-22 13:07:10

johnraff wrote:

The basic idea is to come to a community decision and go with that, while making it as easy as possible for people who'd like do do things differently to do so. Some day I might write a "HOWTO" about the various options, having tried a lot of them.

Maybe you should have an open poll on it. The idea is to do things the easy way.

damo · 2016-04-22 13:19:11

ostrolek wrote:

... The idea is to do things the easy way.

No poll then.

nobody0 · 2016-04-22 17:32:57

damo wrote:

ostrolek wrote:
... The idea is to do things the easy way.
No poll then.

Even the guy, who actually did the scripts, (now and in the time of #!) gives the link to Obamenu means something, Damo.

pvsage · 2016-04-22 19:46:17

ostrolek wrote:

damo wrote:
ostrolek wrote:
... The idea is to do things the easy way.
No poll then.
Even the guy, who actually did the scripts, (now and in the time of #!) gives the link to Obamenu means something, Damo.

^ Yes, it does: it means that we're willing to help users do what they want with the distro. Doesn't change the community's preference for a user-maintained menu.

hhh · 2016-04-23 00:28:37

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends xfce4-appfinder

Bind it to a keyboard shortcut with this command...

xfce4-appfinder --disable-server --collapsed

Boom goes the dynamite, you have an auto-updated search field. Press your down arrow when that's open and you have an auto-updated application list.

nobody0 · 2016-04-23 06:46:09

^We do depend on Xfce, quite naturally.

johnraff · 2016-04-26 01:59:32

pvsage wrote:

we're willing to help users do what they want with the distro

exactly

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