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goltrek

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[Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

Hello everyone, I'm still learning how to use Openbox, so you need to put a menu in the Bunsenlabs taskbar. For me, what I'm learning is simpler. How do I do?
And congratulations to the whole Bunsenlabs team for the excellent work.

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

Please have a look at Introduction to the BunsenLabs Desktop.

The main menu also has many links to useful sources of information in Menu -> Help&Resources.

The "taskbar" is Tint2, so I'm guessing that you want to add a launcher or executor button to start the Openbox menu (your question isn't clear to me). That seems overkill, when you can just right-click on the desktop, or the screen edge at the top. Or use the Super key.

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goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

@earlybird, @damo,

Yes that's right, I would like to add a launcher button on Tint2.
I will read the links that you indicated to me to learn more, thanks to all for the tips.

goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

As I am still learning to use Openbox, I installed Lxde Core just to be able to see a menu with all the options that BunsenLabs has, I came up with the following command.
# apt install lxde-core

On the login screen I can switch between Lxde and Openbox.
I'm using the theme Bunsen-He-Flatish and it was very beautiful.
Only now need to put the Bunsenlabs icon on the menu, how to find?

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

@goltrek: if you wish, by all means, install MSWindows-like launcher.

But, are you aware that you have much more powerful, always present, and everywhere present the right-click (almost) anywhere on the desktop, with all the programs you need, and highly configurable?

I mean, instead to go to the specific place with mouse to click on static launcher, you can be (almost) anywhere on the desktop, and access your 'launcher' with right-click. Try it, you may like it.

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goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

@Imbecil,
I also really liked how Openbox opens the menu on the desktop with the right mouse button, as time goes by I'll get used to it.

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damo

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

You could look in /usr/share/pixmaps for example, for icons. Bunsenlabs graphics can also be found in our github repositories.

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

^^Not only you'll like to use it, you will also like how easy you can configure it to do exactly what you want it to do ... compared to the right-click menu in MSWindows, or in GNOME (and probably KDE) ... the latter can be configured, but in very roundabout and convoluted way.

Anyway, good luck with the BL

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

@goltrek
It’s for this very request that jgmenu came into existence.
Just do

sudo apt install jgmenu

See the wiki for notes on panel integration

https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu/wik … ntegration

goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

You could look in /usr/share/pixmaps for example, for icons. Bunsenlabs graphics can also be found in our github repositories.

Thanks for the tip.

goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

@goltrek
It’s for this very request that jgmenu came into existence.
Just do

sudo apt install jgmenu

See the wiki for notes on panel integration

https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu/wik … ntegration

@malm,
Thanks for the information, I'll install to see how it stays in Bunsenlabs.

malm

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

Default look (with tint2_look=1)

The rocket is the 'jgmenu' icon

Depending on your ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc, you may wish to set 'tint2_look=0'

echo "tint2_look=0" >>~/.config/jgmenu/jgmenurc

Scrot of some new features (not yet in the lastest release)

P.S. Just type to search

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

Off topic, but it must be noted... outstanding work, malm!

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goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

@malm,
Thanks for the tips to set up jgmenu.

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

One such menu implementation is jgmenu. Myself, I don't know how exactly these two work together

tint2 & jgmenu work great together.

Use the tint2 configuration guide to create a Launcher or a Button (I actually use a Button) for jgmenu and add it to the tint2 panel_items.

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

^ Buddy, that is a scrot for the sreenshot thread, it's so pretty.

Impressive... most impressive.

You'll find I'm full of surprises.

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

As I am still learning to use Openbox, I installed Lxde Core just to be able to see a menu with all the options that BunsenLabs has, I came up with the following command.
# apt install lxde-core

that probably wasn't a very good idea and apparently doesn't seem to have fixed your issue.

you know you can just RIGHT-click on the desktop to get a menu, right?

anyhow, i hope you get jgmenu working.

goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

Hi Ohnonot
I installed LXDE to be able to see the Bunsenlabs menu.
But now I know how to use and have access to the menu in Openbox that is very easy, thank you all for the help.

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

How about super+space as a shortcut for the menu too?

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goltrek

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Re: [Solved] Install Menu on the taskbar

@Dobbie03,

Thank you all for the help.