openbox-menu-gtk

hhh · 2024-12-14 01:34:32

Sources for what?

Sorry, this a bit of a necromancer thread (resurrected from years ago), so I'm not quite following. And is this menu better than our current jgmenu?

melodie · 2024-12-14 16:57:30

hhh wrote:

Sources for what?
Sorry, this a bit of a necromancer thread (resurrected from years ago), so I'm not quite following. And is this menu better than our current jgmenu?

It is not exactly for the same use. One can perfectly have a jgmenu with Tint2, (or with anything else) and also use an openbox right-click menu.
openbox-menu allows having an application menu, and it also allows having any other type of menu you may want, all in the right-click menu (catetory menus or else).

Here is my config :
- In /etc/xdg/menus:
* applications.menu -> lxde-applications.menu (symlink)
- In ~/.config/openbox/
* autostart has :

openbox-menu -o menu.xml -p -g -x -k -t "x-terminal-emulator -e" lxde-applications.menu &

after the lines

#!/bin/sh
# start openbox-menu in the background

to explain better, here are the options from openbox-menu:

Options of the application :
-c, --comment Show generic name instead of application name
-t, --terminal=cmd Terminal command (default xterm -e)
-g, --gnome Show GNOME entries
-k, --kde Show KDE entries
-x, --xfce Show XFCE entries
-r, --rox Show ROX entries
-u, --unknown Show Unknown deskstop entries
-p, --persistent stay active
-s, --sn Enable startup notification
-o, --output file to write data to
-T, --template Use filename as template for openbox-menu output
-i, --noicons Don't display icons in menu

- And the first lines from my menu.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/menu">
        <menu execute=" cat ~/.cache/menu.xml" id="desktop-app" label="Applications"/>

My bet about openbox-menu-gtk would have been it could have made creating new custom entries in the openbox menu easier, by using an openbox-menu generator in a graphical way, thus sort of replacing the old obmenu forgotten long ago.

johnraff · 2024-12-15 02:32:06

melodie wrote:

openbox-menu allows having an application menu, and it also allows having any other type of menu you may want, all in the right-click menu (catetory menus or else).

Are you using BunsenLabs?
The right-click menu is exactly as you describe, using jgmenu.

melodie · 2024-12-15 03:15:40

johnraff wrote:

melodie wrote:
openbox-menu allows having an application menu, and it also allows having any other type of menu you may want, all in the right-click menu (catetory menus or else).
Are you using BunsenLabs?
The right-click menu is exactly as you describe, using jgmenu.

I am not using BunsenLabs, and I have added jgmenu only to get a menu at the left part of the tint2 panel. I have been using openbox-menu for years, I didn't think I could use it in the openbox right-click menu to replace openbox-menu. I am not sure I would want to do it, perhaps I should consider it though.

greenjeans · 2025-01-27 20:43:00

Off-topic: @melodie , now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time, but i'm pretty sure we are acquainted from back in around 2010-2011, in fact I seem to remember making a wallpaper for your Openbox "Bonsai", at the time I was heavily into gnome 2 and was working with Siamer on his Zen-mini.

Hope everything is well with you and yours, good to see your name again as it brought back some good memories of my early days with Linux, it might make you happy to know that I finally embraced Openbox and it's pretty much all I work with these days though I do still mess with Mate, you were right back then, I should have looked at it much closer.

à votre santé
~greenjeans

melodie · 2025-05-25 15:40:52

greenjeans wrote:

Off-topic: @melodie , now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time, but i'm pretty sure we are acquainted from back in around 2010-2011, in fact I seem to remember making a wallpaper for your Openbox "Bonsai", at the time I was heavily into gnome 2 and was working with Siamer on his Zen-mini.
Hope everything is well with you and yours, good to see your name again as it brought back some good memories of my early days with Linux, it might make you happy to know that I finally embraced Openbox and it's pretty much all I work with these days though I do still mess with Mate, you were right back then, I should have looked at it much closer.
à votre santé
~greenjeans

Off-topic answer:
Hello @greenjeans! Thanks for your nice message, and sorry for the long delay! The news around the projects with Openbox are still ongoing! (at the linuxvillage.org website) and now also at Github.
Best regards,
Melodie

hhh · 2025-05-25 19:20:55

What the heck is this thread about? The right-click OB menu? As stated above, use jgmenu, developed by former BL developer @malm, who's is now working on labwc. To get it to appear on the desktop instead of the panel, I think you'll need to configure it with a keybind. In BL on xorg we use xscape, IIRC..

https://github.com/jgmenu/jgmenu

Sorry, coming in late to this thread, I hope I'm helping.

#21 2024-12-14 01:34:32

Re: openbox-menu-gtk

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