Compiz+Emerald

Im sure that this has been posted a billion times before but im having trouble with the exact keywords for my problem are
In a nutshell, compiz and emerald do fine decorating my windows but the "inside" part in unchanged
I see all these very nice looking themes that I would like to use but they seem to be applied incompletely
for example, lets say i open up nautilus...the windows are decorated but the "file, edit...etc" are not neither is the part behind the drives
the theme im trying to install has the windows decorated and all those parts as well
i would try to search the forums but i dont know the words for the "inside part" lol

I think you are trying to change the gtk-theme... That is what controls the menus, toolbars, etc of gtk apps.
Are you using Gnome?

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I think you are trying to change the gtk-theme... That is what controls the menus, toolbars, etc of gtk apps.
Are you using Gnome?

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Hi, I'm having a problem with my fresh installation of Archlinux i686. I choosed my favourite desktop environment - Xfce4, but I'm not able to get it working with Emerald and Compiz. When I try "emerald --replace" Emerald won't load and I don't see any error message either. On the other hand when I try running "compiz --replace ccp && emerald --replace &" my window decorations disappear and I see this in my console:
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My xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
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InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIXGL" "true"
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ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
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Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Keyboard0"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "cz,us"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
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Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 290 160 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "AUO"
ModelName "122c"
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Option "DRI" "true"
Identifier "Card0"
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BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
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SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
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Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
Every package in my system is updated to its newest versions (as I said, my system is freshly installed).
And yes, I UTFGed (a lot), but I haven't found any answer that would work for me (partially maybe because most of topics on this matter are more than one year old).
Can anyone help me, please? I'm pretty desperate. Thanks in advance.

myflower wrote:
flamelab wrote:
What's your card ?
And what have you installed for it ?
I have ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series and as you can see in xorg.conf I'm using radeon driver.
Have you installed these ?
mesa libgl ati-dri xf86-video-ati
Did you delete your xorg.conf ? Have you tried xf86-video-ati-git ?
This one: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509 ?
If every else fails: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … positories (catalyst driver instead of radeon)

[SOLVED] Compiz emerald not working

Hi , I recently reinstalled Arch, previously compiz with emerald was working fine under Mate desktop.
Now I can't get them to work properly.
If i run:
emerald --replace
nothing happens
If i run:
compiz --replace &
I lose the window borders and can't move the windows.
In my ccsm I have enabled move windows, window decoration
and in window decoration i have in command emerald --replace
the packages i have installed :
compiz-bcop 0.8.8-2
compiz-core 0.8.9-3
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.8-2
compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.8-3
compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported 0.8.8-1
compizconfig-python 0.8.4-5
emerald 0.8.8-2
emerald-themes 0.6.0-4
as compiz-core is not working if i try to install compiz-core-mate i get:
compiz-core-mate and compiz-core are in conflict.
if i remove compiz-core and everything that depends on compiz-core (compiz plugins, emerald, ccsm) and install compiz-core-mate then i can't install ccsm , compiz plugins nor emeral as all of them requiere compiz-core.
at the end in one way or another I can't get compiz and emerald working. any help would be appreciated
ps. i also tried compiz-gtk-standalone with the same problem that the other packages needed compiz-core and had a compatibility problem.
Last edited by Kronolynx (2014-10-26 17:36:14)

In the OP you were using compiz 0.8x and that version is very out of date. I can't comment on compiz-mate, but the easiest and the semi-official way to run compiz on Arch is with the compiz-bzr (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-bzr/) package in the AUR. If you want emerald with it, then install emerald-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emerald-git/).
Those should be the only two packages you install. compiz-bzr and (optionally) emerald-git. No fusion-icon or compiz-fusion-plugins or anything like that. Fusion icon is dead and all the plugins and everything else you need is bundled into compiz.
Now there has been a bit a trouble with compiz lately and the gtk-window-decorator. You need to downgrade your version of metacity to 3.12.0 (found here: http://seblu.net/a/arm/2014/08/05/commu … kg.tar.xz). I stumbled across this thread because of the problem you're having with ccsm and the error "ImportError: libprotobuf.so.8." In the compiz spinoff package called compiz-manjaro (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-manjaro/) I found the comment "FYI: Recent update to protobuf package means this package needs to be rebuilt to get CCSM working again." So I rebuilt compiz-bzr and now ccsm is working for me again. That last part doesn't apply to you because you're installing compiz-bzr for the first time, but it might help someone else who finds this thread like I did.
As for your problem where you say "if i run compiz --replace i can't move the windows and i get no window borders." If you hold Alt, can you click and drag the windows around? Not having window borders is a common issue because the window border plugin isn't enabled. You can read more about that here - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … nt_plugins
EDIT:
There's the package compiz (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz/) which you can use instead of compiz-bzr. It's the release version instead of the development version. The release version apparently requires metacity2 (which you can find in the AUR), so if you pick this package then ignore my earlier comments about downgrade metacity.
Last edited by beardedlinuxgeek (2014-10-24 13:22:51)

[solved] emerald seems running, but is not decorating windows

I'm trying to run compiz+emerald standalone. Emerald seems to be running, because I activated some plugins (ring switcher and windows previews) and they are working perfect.
Also 'ps aux' reports emerald running, but I can't see windows decorations.
I'm running it via startx, this is my ~/.xinitrc
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
compiz ccp &
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As I saw here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51282
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same problem here: no background & severe tearing. Using nvidia driver. Compiz as standalone WM.
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Now i created a completely new user on my system (to avoid messing with old config files) and start compiz: same problem.
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105281
The package they refer to is flagged out of date.
Hmm, after some more reading http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41438
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insgesamt 204K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 1. Dez 22:40 cursor.theme
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186K 1. Dez 22:40 dmz.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,3K 1. Dez 22:40 index.theme
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4,0K 1. Dez 22:40 pngs
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 1. Dez 22:49 /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme -> /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursor.theme
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[Icon Theme]
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Starting from a terminal gives the following error;
(nm-applet:1445): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1217:17: Expected ')'
(nm-applet:1445): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:102:42: Failed to import: Error opening file: No such file or directory
(nm-applet:1445): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1217:17: Expected ')'
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Hi theafroguy, Welcome to the Forums.
It may be worth trying again off and on.
The forums themselves go off line for varying degrees of time. A thread (???) said Apple was working on it. It's been going on for weeks. A real PITA.

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╭(2)─(root)─(~)
╰# systemctl disable [email protected]
╭(0)─(root)─(~)
╰#
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4 0 0 ? 00:00:01 kworker/0:0
5 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u:0
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7 0 0 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
8 0 0 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
10 0 0 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
11 0 0 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1
12 0 0 ? 00:00:00 cpuset
13 0 0 ? 00:00:00 khelper
14 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kdevtmpfs
15 0 0 ? 00:00:00 netns
16 0 0 ? 00:00:00 sync_supers
17 0 0 ? 00:00:00 bdi-default
18 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kblockd
19 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kworker/0:1
20 0 0 ? 00:00:01 kworker/1:1
21 0 0 ? 00:00:00 khungtaskd
22 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
23 0 0 ? 00:00:00 ksmd
24 0 0 ? 00:00:00 khugepaged
25 0 0 ? 00:00:00 fsnotify_mark
26 0 0 ? 00:00:00 crypto
29 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kthrotld
31 0 0 ? 00:00:00 deferwq
69 0 0 ? 00:00:00 khubd
70 0 0 ? 00:00:00 ata_sff
71 0 0 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
72 0 0 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
73 0 0 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
74 0 0 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
75 0 0 ? 00:00:01 kworker/u:2
88 0 0 ? 00:00:00 jbd2/sda1-8
89 0 0 ? 00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
137 0 0 ? 00:00:00 rpciod
138 0 0 ? 00:00:00 nfsiod
207 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
210 0 0 ? 00:00:00 hd-audio0
213 0 0 ? 00:00:00 cfg80211
215 0 0 ? 00:00:00 flush-8:0
252 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kworker/1:2
296 0 0 ? 00:00:00 jbd2/sda3-8
297 0 0 ? 00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
1991 0 0 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u:1
1 1 1 ? 00:00:00 init
131 131 131 ? 00:00:00 systemd-udevd
358 357 357 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng
359 359 359 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng
384 384 384 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
410 410 410 ? 00:00:01 NetworkManager
1802 1802 410 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
524 524 524 ? 00:00:00 ntpd
534 534 534 ? 00:00:00 crond
538 538 538 ? 00:00:00 preload
545 384 384 ? 00:00:00 polkitd
548 548 548 ? 00:00:00 login
1128 1128 1128 tty1 00:00:00 bash
1180 1128 1128 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
1181 1181 1181 tty3 00:00:37 X
1187 1187 1128 tty1 00:00:13 compiz
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1679 1187 1128 tty1 00:00:00 panel-4-systray
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1682 1187 1128 tty1 00:00:00 panel-8-battery
1683 1187 1128 tty1 00:00:00 panel-5-datetim
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1658 1187 1128 tty1 00:00:03 parcellite
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1151 384 384 ? 00:00:00 colord-sane
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1198 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
1203 1202 1202 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio
1208 1202 1202 ? 00:00:00 gconf-helper
1211 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
1655 1654 1654 ? 00:00:00 xbindkeys
1662 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd
1665 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-fuse-daemo
1674 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 xfconfd
1694 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-udisks2-vo
1697 384 384 ? 00:00:00 udisksd
1706 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-afc-volume
1712 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd-trash
1717 1198 1198 ? 00:00:00 at-spi-bus-laun
1875 1875 1875 ? 00:00:00 sshd
1993 1992 1992 ? 00:00:01 terminal
1994 1992 1992 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
1995 1995 1995 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
2032 2032 2032 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
2046 2046 2032 pts/1 00:00:00 ps

XFCE4 Windows open behind panel

I am having an annoying issue with XFCE4 + compiz + emerald. I've had this issue with a few panel applets, where the window will open partly behind my XFCE panel. Right now I am having the issue after installing PNmixer, as shown in this screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/nonxM.png
No matter what I do it opens in that same spot. I also had this problem with the orage calendar, but was able to fix it by using the compiz move window shortcut and moving it into a better spot, and then the application remembered it. No such like with this, as I can't use the move window shortcut on it (if I use any keyboard shortcut on it it just disappears, even if I set the shortcut to a single key rather than a combination)
Is there anyway to fix this? Not sure exactly whats causing it.

Not a solution to the actual problem but it will eliminate windows showing behind the panel.
Use workplace margin to create a space equal in size to the top panel.
Last edited by jeff story (2012-01-16 21:33:35)

MyGtkMenu dinamic menu generator (auto-updated)

I switched from lxpanel to bmpanel2 about a week or 10 days ago. With lxpanel I used the menu it provides, but bmpanel2 doesn't cames with a menu widget. One of the solutions suggested is use myGtkMenu, called from a launcher. I use Openbox with obmenugen, which auto-updates the menu every time I call it (right click on desktop), so, I want the same approach with myGtkMenu. This means that if I install a new application and it puts a .desktop file (which is the most common behavior), when I right-click in the desktop, and the menu is shown, the application is already under the category it belongs.
The first version of obmenugen I wrote, was in python. obmenugen has evolved a lot since that, but the original python script, still having the main code needed to get the information from .desktop files, so, I tweaked the script and quickly have a usable version which generates a dinamic menu using the information present in .desktop files (/usr/share/applications/*.desktop).
By now, the script still not adding icons to the menu, so, you end having a menu that looks similar to the Openbox menu. The layout of the menu is quite fixed (I don't know the term in english to describe "rígido"). To configure it, you must tweak the script itself, but it's easy if you don't need so much.
In the future (I hope soon) I will be writing a modified version of obmenugen, also in the D programming language, with the same flexibility as obmenugen, but generating in myGtkMenu format.
Edit it as needed (CONFIG, MY_GTK_MENU_BINARY, MENUPOS), and simply run it directly (save the code to a file, give it execution permissions, and call it).
This is the script:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
__license__ = """
Copyright 2010 Pável Varela Rodríguez <[email protected]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
__author__ = "Pável Varela Rodríguez <[email protected]>"
__version__ = "0.1"
### EDIT THIS TO YOUR NEEDS ###
CONFIG = {
"Terminal": "sakura",
"Editor" : "gedit",
"FileManager" : "thunar",
"RunCommand" : "gmrun",
"ExitCommand" : "oblogout"
MY_GTK_MENU_BINARY="~/bin/myGtkMenu"
MY_GTK_MENU_FILE="/tmp/myGtkMenu.txt"
ICONSIZE=-1 # Set to -1 to ignore icon
MENUPOS=(1, 30) # Set both to -1 to ignore position
### DO NOT EDIT FROM HERE ###
import os, re
OB_CFG_HOME = os.path.expanduser("~/.config/openbox")
DEFAULT_CFG = {
"Terminal": "xterm",
"Editor" : "gedit",
"FileManager" : "thunar",
"RunCommand" : "gmrun"
LANG = {}
LANG["Long"] = os.environ["LANG"].split(".")[0]
LANG["Short"] = LANG["Long"].split("_")[0]
DOT_DESKTOP_LOCATIONS = [
"/usr/share/applications",
"/usr/share/applications/kde4"
FILTERS = {
"dotDesktop": re.compile('.+\.desktop'),
"Categories": re.compile('Categories=.+'),
"Name": re.compile('Name(\[(en_US|en)\]|)=.+'),
"Exec": re.compile('Exec=.+'),
"Icon": re.compile('Icon=.+'),
CATEGORIES_PRIORITY = ["01System", "02Settings", "03Development", "04Education",
"05AudioVideo", "06Audio", "07Video", "08Office",
"09Graphics", "10Network", "11Utility", "12Viewer",
"13Game"]
MENU_TEMPLATE = """
MENU_TOP
SEPARATOR
MENU_ACCESORIES
MENU_GRAPHICS
MENU_EDUCATION
MENU_AUDIOVIDEO
MENU_OFFICE
MENU_GAMES
MENU_NETWORK
MENU_DEVEL
MENU_SETTINGS
MENU_SYSTEM
SEPARATOR
#submenu = Openbox Settings
#\ticon = NULL
#\tMENU_OPENBOX
EXIT
MENU_TOP = """item=Terminal\ncmd="%s"\nicon=NULL\n
item=Editor\ncmd="%s"\nicon=NULL\n
item=FileManager\ncmd="%s"\nicon=NULL\n
item=Run\ncmd="%s"\nicon=NULL\n"""
MENU_CATEGORY = """submenu = %s\n\ticon = NULL\n%s\n\n"""
ITEM_ACTION = """\titem=%s\n\tcmd="%s"\n\ticon=%s\n\n"""
MENU = ""
LISTS = {
"accesories": {"categories": ["utility"], "label": "Accesories", "files": []},
"graphics": {"categories": ["graphics"], "label": "Graphics", "files": []},
"education": {"categories": ["education"], "label": "Education", "files": []},
"audiovideo": {"categories": ["audiovideo", "audio", "video"], "label": "Audio & Video", "files": []},
"office": {"categories": ["office"], "label": "Office", "files": []},
"games": {"categories": ["game"], "label": "Games", "files": []},
"network": {"categories": ["network"], "label": "Network", "files": []},
"devel": {"categories": ["development"], "label": "Development", "files": []},
"settings": {"categories": ["settings"], "label": "Settings", "files": []},
"system": {"categories": ["system"], "label": "System Tools", "files": []}
def getDotDesktopFiles():
filelist = []
for directory in DOT_DESKTOP_LOCATIONS:
utf8_dir = directory.decode('utf8')
filelist += [os.path.join(utf8_dir, item.decode('utf8'))
for item in os.listdir(directory)
if FILTERS["dotDesktop"].match(item)]
return filelist
def __cleanValue(value):
for to_clean in ["%U", "%u", "%F", "%f", "\n"]:
value = value.replace(to_clean, "")
value = value.replace("&", "&")
value = value.strip()
return value
def getName(content):
for line in content:
if FILTERS["Name"].match(line):
return __cleanValue(line.split("=")[1])
return None
def getCategory(content):
for line in content:
if FILTERS["Categories"].match(line):
categories = [item.replace("\n", "") for item in line.split("=")[1].split(";")]
for cat in CATEGORIES_PRIORITY:
if cat[2:] in categories:
return __cleanValue(cat[2:])
return None
def getExecCmd(content):
for line in content:
if FILTERS["Exec"].match(line):
return __cleanValue(line.split("=")[1])
return None
def getIcon(content):
if ICONSIZE > 0:
for line in content:
if FILTERS["Icon"].match(line):
return __cleanValue(line.split("=")[1])
return "NULL"
def parseDotDesktopFile(filepath):
content = open(filepath, "r").readlines()
name = getName(content)
category = getCategory(content)
exec_cmd = getExecCmd(content)
icon = getIcon(content)
if None in [name, category, exec_cmd]:
return None
else:
return {"Name": name,
"Category": category,
"Exec": exec_cmd,
"Icon": icon}
def fillLists():
files = getDotDesktopFiles()
for currentFile in getDotDesktopFiles():
info = parseDotDesktopFile(currentFile)
if info:
for category_list in LISTS.keys():
if info["Category"].lower() in LISTS[category_list]["categories"]:
LISTS[category_list]["files"].append(info)
def __genMenuTop():
for key in CONFIG.keys():
if CONFIG[key]: DEFAULT_CFG[key] = CONFIG[key]
return MENU_TOP % (DEFAULT_CFG["Terminal"],
DEFAULT_CFG["Editor"],
DEFAULT_CFG["FileManager"],
DEFAULT_CFG["RunCommand"])
def __genCategoryMenu(category):
items = ""
LISTS[category]["files"].sort()
for item in LISTS[category]["files"]:
items += ITEM_ACTION % (item["Name"], item["Exec"], item["Icon"])
if not items:
return ""
menu_label = LISTS[category]["label"]
return MENU_CATEGORY % (menu_label, items)
def __genMenuOpenbox():
items = ""
AUTOSTARTSH = os.path.join(OB_CFG_HOME, "autostart.sh")
if not os.path.exists(AUTOSTARTSH):
f = open(AUTOSTARTSH, "w")
f.close()
os.chmod(AUTOSTARTSH, 0744)
items += ITEM_ACTION[8:] % ("Configure Autostarted Applications", "%s %s" % (DEFAULT_CFG["Editor"], AUTOSTARTSH))
for item in LISTS["settings"]["files"]:
if item["Exec"] in ["obconf"]:
items += ITEM_ACTION[:-1] % (item["Name"], item["Exec"], item["Icon"])
return items
def __genMenu():
fillLists()
MENU = MENU_TEMPLATE.replace("MENU_TOP", __genMenuTop())
for category in LISTS.keys():
MENU = MENU.replace("MENU_%s" % category.upper(), __genCategoryMenu(category))
#MENU = MENU.replace("MENU_OPENBOX", __genMenuOpenbox())
MENU = MENU.replace("EXIT", "\nitem=Exit\ncmd=%s\nicon=NULL\n" % CONFIG["ExitCommand"])
if ICONSIZE > 0:
MENU = "iconsize = %d\n%s" % (ICONSIZE, MENU)
if MENUPOS[0] > 0 and MENUPOS[1] > 0:
MENU = "MenuPosition = %d %d\n%s" % (MENUPOS[0], MENUPOS[1], MENU)
return MENU
def __writeMenuFile(content):
filePath = os.path.join("/tmp", MY_GTK_MENU_FILE)
menuFile = open(filePath, "w")
menuFile.write(content)
menuFile.close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(os.sys.argv) > 2:
print("Bad arguments length!!")
elif "--help" in os.sys.argv or "-h" in os.sys.argv:
print "La ayuda"
elif len(os.sys.argv) == 1:
menu = __genMenu()
#print(menu)
__writeMenuFile(menu)
os.system("%s %s" % (MY_GTK_MENU_BINARY, MY_GTK_MENU_FILE))
else:
print("Argument error: %s" % " ".join(os.sys.argv[1:]))
The only things you need to edit are those present in the first section of the script. If you know wath you do, can also change the order of the categories, editing MENU_TEMPLATE.
The most important are settings are:
- MY_GTK_MENU_BINARY: Which you must set up to the myGtkMenu binary (the full path or simply myGtkMenu if it is in $PATH)
- CONFIG: Put there the tools you use
- MENUPOS: If you will use the generated menu the way Openbox show it's own menu (ie. with compiz+emerald standalone), set this to (-1, -1), the menu will appear just under the mouse pointer. I setted it to (1, 30), because I have my bmpanel2 at screen's top, and the launcher is at the begining (the left).
Sorry about the ugly code, but this was written to do the job, quick and dirty.
I hope you enjoy it, and wait for next versions, which will be really flexible and fast, as obmenugen.
See you
Last edited by NeOnsKuLL (2010-01-05 05:32:48)

I used this script and it as the icon names generated by it are the ones in the .desktop files, myGtkMenu was not able to show icons. So i inserted a piece of code from cbpanel to get the absolute path into the mygtkmenu file.
Here is the relevant piece of code:
#copied from the cbpanel code
def find_icon(icon):
foundiconfile=None
if icon == '':
return foundiconfile
if icon[0] == '/':
return icon
iconbase=('','Faenza','elementary','gnome','hicolor','locolor')
iconpath='/usr/share/icons'
sizelist =('', 'scalable', '256x256', '128x128', '64x64', '48x48', '32x32', '24x24')
categorylist=('actions', 'apps','devices', 'categories','filesystems', 'places', 'status', 'stock', '')
extensionlist = ('png', 'svg', 'xpm')
iconimagelist=[]
for extension in extensionlist:
if (icon.find('.'+extension) != -1):
icon = icon.replace('.'+extension,'')
for size in sizelist:
for extension in extensionlist:
for category in categorylist:
for iconbasecat in iconbase:
iconfile = iconpath+"/"+iconbasecat+'/'+size+'/'+category+'/'+icon+'.'+extension
iconimagelist.append(iconfile)
for extension in extensionlist:
iconfile = '/usr/share/pixmaps/'+icon+'.'+extension
iconimagelist.append(iconfile)
for extension in extensionlist:
iconfile = '/usr/share/app-install/icons/'+icon+'.'+extension
iconimagelist.append(iconfile)
# Seek if the files in pre-generated list exists.. first match is the best
# return it
for iconimage in iconimagelist:
if os.path.exists(iconimage):
return iconimage
return foundiconfile
#end of copy from cbpanel code
And the relevant modification in NeOnsKuLL's script:
def getIcon(content):
if ICONSIZE > 0:
for line in content:
if FILTERS["Icon"].match(line):
#return __cleanValue(line.split("=")[1])
return find_icon(__cleanValue(line.split("=")[1]))
return "NULL"
This is my first attempt at doing anything with Python, so somebody with any skills will do much better than this copy-paste job
I have no idea why the icons were not displayed in the first place though.
Hope somebody finds it useful as I found NeOnsKull's script.

Compiz+Emerald

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