Lost Openbox Menu to LXDE install

I would like to know how to restore my openbox menu, or atleast edit the one LXDE uses. I installed LXDE in hopes to have a better linux experience. After all sitting there with just Openbox, Nitrogen, tint2, and Conky was all well and good but I like having a desktop with icons.
My problem though without all the fluf is that my openbox menu became LXDE with only a few menus, which is far from my long list with just Openbox. Is there a way to restore it, or import everything over. (Like the menu.xml and the rc.xml) I know it exists since the obmenu command shows my old menu, though I can't get it to show up.

Did you manually configure your old menu via ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml or did you use the default?
If you configured it and now you have something different, then I'm guessing it was overwritten, in which case it would be interesting to know if that happens automatically or not when installing/running Lxde.
If you were using the default, try renaming ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml.bak then reconfigure openbox and check if it reset your menu.

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[SOLVED] Freezing while executing /usr/bin/openbox from Openbox menu

I'm following the instructions in this webpage to create a dynamic menu. I have successfully achieved this on my laptop by installing the openbox-menu package and typing the following lines in menu.xml:
<menu id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications" execute="/usr/bin/openbox-menu lxde-applications.menu" />
For some reason, the same doesn't work on my desktop PC. After editing and saving the menu.xml file, I restart Openbox and when I right click the desktop and hover the "Applications" menu item the desktop freezes. However, I can still move the mouse and switch to other ttys with Ctrl+Alt+Fx, therefore I believe it's reasonable to suggest that the problem lies in the permissions.
What should I do about it?
Last edited by Martificiam (2013-02-03 11:29:21)

Umm, that's not "some random" webpage at all... It worked on all of my Arch Linux installations. The "lxde-applications.menu" is just an argument. But thanks for the link, I'll look into it.
It's just that it's more of a workaround, not a solution, really... since it has ALWAYS worked for me.
Furthermore, while setting up Arch on my laptop I remember experiencing similar problems (running a particular program from the openbox menu and resulting in a desktop freeze). This must have something to do with permissions.
Edit: the xdg_menu worked perfectly, but I would still prefer to use the openbox-menu. I'm marking this as solved anyway.
Last edited by Martificiam (2013-02-03 11:29:06)

[SOLVED] Openbox-menu saying Menu not found...

Hello all,
I installed Arch with Openbox. For the menu, I want to use openbox-menu to see my Applications.
In menu.xml, I put the line:
<menu execute="openbox-menu" id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications"/>
But when I point it in the menu, I get:
Menu not found. Please specify a menu specification file.
I get the same result in Terminal either as a user or as root.
These are the "menu" packages I have installed:
[philippe@phil-bureau ~]$ pacman -Qs menu
local/dmenu-xft 4.5-1
Dynamic X menu - with xft support
local/gnome-menus 3.2.0.1-1
GNOME menu specifications
local/gnome-menus2 3.0.1-1
GNOME menu specifications
local/libdbusmenu-qt 0.9.0-2
A library that provides a Qt implementation of the DBusMenu spec
local/lxmenu-data 0.1.2-1 (lxde)
freedesktop.org desktop menus for LXDE
local/menu-cache 0.3.2-1 (lxde)
Caches to speed up freedesktop.org's application menus use.
local/obmenu 1.0-9
Openbox menu editor.
local/openbox-menu 0.3.6.6-1
Dynamic XDG menu for openbox
local/openbox-xdgmenu 0.3-2
fast xdg-menu converter to xml-pipe-menu
Any help/ideas/suggestions are welcome!
Thanks
Philippe
Last edited by Philippe1 (2012-02-17 16:30:22)

Hey guys, thanks for the quick response!
Openbox-menu comes from AUR and the menu.xml is a copy of my Archbang installation. And yes, openbox-menu works like a charm on Archbang. So what am I missing?
Here is the menu.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://openbox.org/ file:///usr/share/openbox/menu.xsd">
<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3.5">
<item label="Fichiers">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
nautilus
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Internet">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
chromium
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Minitube">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
minitube
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Jeux de cartes">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
pysol
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="LibreOffice Writer">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
libreoffice -writer
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="LibreOffice Calc">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
libreoffice -calc
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Terminal">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
sakura
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<separator/>
<menu execute="openbox-menu" id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications"/>
<menu execute="~/.config/openbox/pipemenus/obpipemenu-places ~/" id="places" label="Places"/>
<menu execute="~/.config/openbox/pipemenus/obrecent.sh ~/" id="recent" label="Recent Files"/>
<menu id="Preferences" label="Preferences">
<menu id="root-menu-90523" label="Conky Config">
<item label="Edit .conkyrc">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
leafpad ~/.conkyrc
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Restart Conky">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
conkywonky
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-891528" label="Eye Candy">
<item label="No effects">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh unset
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh set
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency, fading">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh setshaded
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency, fading shadows">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh setshadowshade
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-525118" label="Openbox Config">
<item label="Edit autostart">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
leafpad ~/.config/openbox/autostart
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GUI Menu Editor">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
obmenu
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GUI Config Tool">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
obconf
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Key Editor">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
obkey
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Reconfigure">
<action name="Reconfigure"/>
</item>
<item label="Restart">
<action name="Restart"/>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-23433" label="Take Screenshot">
<item label="Now">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="In 5 Seconds...">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot -d 5 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="In 10 Seconds...">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot -d 10 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Selected Area... (click & drag mouse)">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot -s '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-571948" label="tint2 config">
<item label="Edit tint2rc">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
leafpad ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Tint Wizard">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
tintwizard.py
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<item label="Edit /etc/rc.conf">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
sudo leafpad /etc/rc.conf
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Input Device Preferences">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
lxinput
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Screen Resolution">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
arandr
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="User Interface Settings">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
lxappearance
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Wallpaper">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
nitrogen
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<separator/>
<item label="Exit">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
oblogout
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
</openbox_menu>
Thanks again!

Obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

I put the code:
<menu execute="obm-xdg" id="obm-xdg" label="xdg"/>
in ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml just like it says to do universally. It does not show any menu. Every other menu item in the file works. I can edit them and they change. obmenu can see the entry. gnome-menus is installed. obm-xdg works from the command line. Why does this not show anything in the menu?
Last edited by skottish (2008-11-06 05:27:03)

Make sure you add the menu id to the root-menu list at the bottom of menu.xml:
<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
<separator label="Applications" />
<menu id="obm-xdg" />
<menu id="apps-accessories-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-editors-menu"/>
Last edited by thayer (2008-11-06 05:11:29)

HOWTO: Openbox Menu Icon in PyPanel

Using Openbox and PyPanel (or similar) and are tired of either having to minimize windows or adjust maximum window size to leave space for right-clicking on the desktop? Do you have a keyboard shortcut set up to open the menu, but also want to be able to use the mouse to open the menu easier? I have a solution!
Create an icon to launch the Openbox application menu on PyPanel.
This will allow you to click on an icon on PyPanel which opens the OpenBox menu, similar to Gnome's application menu.
Example:
Requirements:
Openbox Window Manager
PyPanel (dock/panel application)
xdotool
obkey - to edit key shortcuts to OpenBox's rc.xml (not required, but used in this howto)
Recommendations:
archlinux-artwork
Procedure:
1) If you don't already have PyPanel installed, install it now (as root).
pacman -S pypanel
2) Launch pypanel in an application launcher, or the terminal (as normal user):
pypanel &&
3) Install xdotool (allows for launching keyboard shortcuts via command line) (as root)
pacman -S xdotool
4) If you do not have obkey installed, install it with yaourt (recommended) or download the tar.gz and run the python script:
yaourt -S obkey-git
OR
Go to the obkey site or download the .tar.gz by clicking here
Extract the .tar.gz:
tar -xvf ./obkey-dev-abf0bb12.tar.gz
Enter the obkey-dev directory:
cd ./obkey-dev
Run obkey and point it to the openbox rc.xml (as normal user!):
./obkey ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
5) In obkey, find an existing key or create a new key binding by clicking "Insert sibling key" at the top. Note: Ctrl+alt combinations did not seem to work for me to create this menu launcher.
- If it's an existing key, select it, then click on the action in the bottom right-hand pane. A window should pop up. Find and select "ShowMenu"
- If it's a new key, select it, enter in the key combination you want to use in the key (text) box (for example, C-M for Ctrl+M), then click the green "Insert Action" button at the bottom. Click on the new "Focus" action. A window should pop up. Find and select "ShowMenu"
In the ShowMenu action, at the top there should be a box for "menu:" Enter in "root-menu" in this box.
Now save by clicking the green arrow + hard drive in the top left corner of obkey. Now you should be able to use that key combination to open the root-menu. If not, try restarting the X Server.
Example:
6) This is optional, but if you want a nice Arch icon for your new menu launcher, you can grab mine. If you want to use your own image, it cannot be .svg, so I converted a .svg icon to .png from the the official Arch Artwork package (archlinux-artwork in the repos). If you want to just use mine:
Enter the following commands to get the image and set it up for the next step:
mkdir ~/.icons/archlinux/icons/
wget -P ~/.icons/archlinux/icons/ http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1378/archlinuxiconcrystal128.png
7) Open up your ~/.pypanelrc with your favorite text editor (e.g. nano or gedit).
Scroll down to a line starting with "LAUNCH_LIST" Most likely it will have a line like this by default:
("gimp-2.2", "/usr/share/imlib2/data/images/paper.png")
Change the line to the following to use xdotool and the key you assigned in step 5, as well as the icon image we just downloaded (Note: make sure to change /home/user to your specific home directory!):
("xdotool key ctrl+m", "/home/user/.icons/archlinux/icons/archlinuxiconcrystal128.png")
Next, locate a line about 15 more down starting with "APPICONS." Change this value from 0 to 1.
APPICONS = 1 # Show application icons
Finally, about 20 lines down, you will see a section for Panel Layout.
There are 5 sections for the panel: Desktop, Tasks, Tray, Clock, and Launcher. They can be assigned, in order of left to right on the panel, with numbers 1-5 and 0 for disabled. Choose a location you want your Launcher to be and set the value from 1-5. You can play around with this by setting the values, then restarting pypanel.
Here is how I have set mine (I disabled Desktop since I only use one desktop/workspace and do not need it to say which one I am on):
DESKTOP = 0 # Desktop name section
TASKS = 2 # Task names section
TRAY = 3 # System tray section
CLOCK = 4 # Clock section
LAUNCHER = 1 # Application launcher section
8) Finally, kill and restart PyPanel and enjoy!
killall pypanel && pypanel
9) Tell me how it went, what you think, what I could improve on, etc!
Last edited by CheesyBeef (2009-03-24 22:22:39)

Vighi wrote:
Very nice guide got it working almost straight away :-)
Had to restart X in order to get key-binding to work though. And I put /home/username/.icons/archlinux/icons/archlinuxiconcrystal128.png instead of ~/ because somehow I got couldn't find logo error when pypanel started.
BTW sexy pypanel look you have. All the info in your .dotfiles link? will get to it tomorrow I guess. Thanks!
Thanks very much for using my guide and responding!
I will fix that ~/ directory problem and say to use the home directory.
And yes, that configuration is in my .dotfiles at the moment You can follow that link or just grab it here: http://dotfiles.org/~CheesyBeef/.pypanelrc
Thanks again!

[SOLVED] Strange Openbox menu behaviour

Hi,
so, I've searched the forums in order to find a solution for my problem, but not found anythihg that works for me. So, problem is that my openbox menu won't execute any commands that I add to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml file. After editing that file, I run
openbox --reconfigure
command (no any error messages), but again, it simply won't execute the command that I've written. I have also changed permissions, so that I have read/write access. But, strange is that if I delete menus in menu.xml that I don't need, save those changes, and run reconfigure command, those menus are not any more in openbox menu, just as it should be.
It seems that only commands that I want to execute will not work. I' ve also installed obmenu and tried editing stuff there, but again the same problem-deleting menus works fine, but executing commands not. It is obviously that problem is not in obmenu, but in menu.xml file or somewhere else, but I don't know
where.
So, any ideas? Did someone experienced the same problem and found a solution? All ideas are welcome
Last edited by brunux (2010-05-09 16:32:54)

In my menu.xml all the programs are surrounded by <command></command> tags instead of <execute></execute>tags.
I've tried with your suggestion, but it doesn't work. For example, running firefox works fine with <command></command> tags, but it is the default
part of the code, where I didn't change anything.
<item label="Firefox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>firefox</command>
<startupnotify>
<enabled>yes</enabled>
<wmclass>Firefox</wmclass>
</startupnotify>
</action>
</item>

I completely lost access to mail after installing iOS 6.0.1. The app 'mail' won't even open now. How do I fix this?

i completely lost access to mail after installing iOS 6.0.1. The app 'mail' won't even open now. How do I fix this?

You mean the Apple Mail app? Updated through software Update in the Apple Menu?.
Or maybe you downloaded Mail from another source?
Do you still have Snow Leopard or didn't you update your profile?

[Openbox] Wine menu in Openbox menu?

Is there a way to get the wine menu in openbox? I mean in gnome its in Applications>Wine and it has all the configure, wine uninstall wine software etc etc and it also automatically updates when new software is installed. Is it possible to have something like that in openbox?

You could try making your own Wine menu in Openbox through Obmenu or by directly modifying the ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml

[Solved] gmrun & Openbox menu can't launch program but bash can.

Hey there.
Got myself a bit of a confusing problem. I recently installed the latest of Natron, in /opt/Natron, and added the path to the PATH variable in the .bashrc file, and i can launch it if I'm on bash, but gmrun and the Openbox menu can't locate the executable when I try to launch it from there. Which is weird, because when i was adding it the Natron directory to the path when it wasn't in the .bashrc, i could then launch Natron just fine from gmrun. Anyone know why this is the case? Any help is appreciated.
Last edited by anark10n (2015-02-22 16:35:17)

.bashrc is only sourced when starting an interactive shell, whereas .bash_profile is sourced when you log in. Try adding the PATH export to your .bash_profile, then log out and back in.

I'm running Windows 7 on a laptop & Firefox has lost its Menu Bar for Firefox. It says it's turned on, but I can't see it. I have googled various options to try & get it back, but nothing works.

I am running Windows 7 on a laptop and I have lost my Menu Bar for Firefox. It says it's turned on, but I can't see it. I have googled various options to try & get it back, but nothing works. Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Downloaded Mozbackup & backed up all bookmarks, extensions, passwords (not settings)
Uninstalled Firefox completely (Using REVO Uninstaller)
Reboot
Re-install Firefox
...Ran MozBackup & restored profile
Woo HOO !!
The problem was an add on: Hide Caption Titlebar Plus
Once I uninstalled that - the menu returned
Thanks for your support anyway

[SOLVED] Running wine prog from Openbox menu

Hello everyone. I was wondering if there's a way to run a program installed through wine from the openbox menu? The problem I'm having is that you have to be in the directory with the .exe in order to run it properly. I can run it fine from the terminal but not openbox.
I've tried the suggestions here: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24893
Any ideas?
Last edited by Somnus (2013-12-28 01:37:39)

Probably the best formal way to do this is by creating a .desktop file for your Wine application and putting it in the ~/.local/share/applications directory.
In this file you would specify a Path key to change to the .exe directory, and then the Exec key to run: wine /path/name.exe etc
In the Openbox menu you'd then make an entry which runs a command - like xdg-open - which can launch the .desktop file.
(My own launcher fyr can do this, for example, but there are others.)
Using .desktop files is the "modern" way to launch applications!

Obtap - An openbox menu generator like none before. (BETA)

(When I say none before I mean none that I could find. If I could find one, I wouldn't have to make this then. Anyway..)
Hey guys, I'm here to present my project 'obtap'. It's inspired by obmenugen, a great menu generator written in D which I've used before obtap. The reason I don't use it anymore is because it wasn't as customizable as I'd of liked it to be and that's why I've made obtap.
I've developed a small (under <150KiB, only using the C++ standard library which means you don't have to install any dependencies) Openbox menu generator that's grown to do many things:
obtap can generate pipe menus, static menus, a dynamically updating menu (basically a menu with it's contents a pipe menu).
obtap can easily add separators for menu layout and edit entries in such ways of renaming/merging categories, setting entry categories, renaming entries and deleting entries.
obtap has command line options to specify menu type (pipe, static, dynamic), the configuration file and the output.
The selling point, I'd say at least, is that obtap can (but doesn't have to) load desktop files from directories as entries, which you can then process with the above methods.
Here's my menu:
That's created using this configuration file:
# Jookia's obtap configuration file.
output(~/.config/openbox/menu.xml)
type(openboxDynamic)
locations(/usr/share/applications,/usr/share/applications/kde4)
extensions(desktop)
obeyOnlyShowIn(GNOME,KDE,XFCE)
ignoreCategories(GTK,GNOME,Qt)
alphabetize(true)
customEntry(Logout;shutdown-dialog.py)
customEntry(Reconfigure Openbox;openbox --reconfigure;Utilities)
customEntry(Nitrogen;nitrogen;Settings)
replaceCategoryName(AudioVideo;Multimedia)
replaceCategoryName(Game;Games)
replaceCategoryName(Graphics;Multimedia)
replaceCategoryName(Utility;Utilities)
replaceCategoryName(System;Utilities)
replaceEntryName(GNU Image Manipulation Program;GIMP)
deleteEntry(Root Terminal)
deleteEntry(Open Folder with Thunar)
menuEntry(separator;Applications)
menuEntry(categories)
menuEntry(separator)
menuEntry(entry;Logout)
Here's how to get it from the GitHub page.
git clone git://github.com/Jookia/obtap.git
cd obtap
make
bin/obtap -c goodies/example.conf
openbox --reconfigure
That'll create a dynamic example menu and update Openbox.
To edit it, edit example.conf or copy it to ~/.config/obtap.conf and run obtap without the '-c goodies/example.conf'.
You can also install it by using the PKGBUILD in the goodies folder.
I don't have much to say. Uh.. Thanks for reading and if you do use it, I'd love to know.
Last edited by Jookia (2010-11-07 22:35:46)

Ok here's for the verbose result, it's pointing to "`/.config/obtap.conf" which is resulting
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/menu">
<menu id="root-menu" label="" execute=
"/home/martin/obtap -c /home/martin/.config/obtap.conf -t openboxpipe -o -"
/>
</openbox_menu>
It's have an exactly same results like when you first time invoke obtap before install it to your /usr/bin
Here's the obtap output schema
<openbox_pipe_menu>
<separator label="Applications"/>
<menu id="menu-utilities" label="Utilities">
<item label="Shutter">
<action name="Execute">
<command>shutter</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Bulk Rename">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/lib/ThunarBulkRename</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="UNetbootin">
<action name="Execute">
<command>su -c /usr/sbin/unetbootin</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Cairo Composite Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>cairo-compmgr</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="SUSE Studio Imagewriter">
<action name="Execute">
<command>imagewriter</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Avahi Zeroconf Browser">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/avahi-discover</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Htop">
<action name="Execute">
<command>htop</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Terminator">
<action name="Execute">
<command>terminator</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GSmartControl">
<action name="Execute">
<command>"/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol-root"</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GParted">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gksu /usr/sbin/gparted</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="gVim">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gvim</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Thunar File Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>Thunar</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="CoverGloobus">
<action name="Execute">
<command>covergloobus</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Squeeze">
<action name="Execute">
<command>squeeze</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Disk Utility">
<action name="Execute">
<command>palimpsest</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-settings" label="Settings">
<item label="Notifications">
<action name="Execute">
<command>xfce4-notifyd-config</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Openbox Configuration Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>obconf</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="TintWizard">
<action name="Execute">
<command>tintwizard</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="File Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>thunar-settings</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Removable Drives and Media">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-volman-settings</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Qt Config ">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/qtconfig</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="CoverGloobus Configuration">
<action name="Execute">
<command>covergloobus-config</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Preferred Applications">
<action name="Execute">
<command>libfm-pref-apps</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Customize Look and Feel">
<action name="Execute">
<command>lxappearance</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-network" label="Network">
<item label="IcedTea Web Start">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/javaws</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Avahi VNC Server Browser">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/bvnc</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Firefox - Safe Mode">
<action name="Execute">
<command>firefox -safe-mode</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Avahi SSH Server Browser">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/bssh</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Firefox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>firefox</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Midori">
<action name="Execute">
<command>midori</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="XChat IRC">
<action name="Execute">
<command>xchat</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Pidgin Internet Messenger">
<action name="Execute">
<command>pidgin</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-development" label="Development">
<item label="Qt Designer">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/designer</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="CMake">
<action name="Execute">
<command>cmake-gui</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Qt Linguist">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/linguist</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="OpenJDK Monitoring & Management Console">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/jconsole</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Geany">
<action name="Execute">
<command>geany</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Qt Assistant">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/assistant</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="OpenJDK Policy Tool">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/policytool</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-multimedia" label="Multimedia">
<item label="Document Viewer">
<action name="Execute">
<command>evince</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="DeaDBeeF">
<action name="Execute">
<command>deadbeef</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Mirage">
<action name="Execute">
<command>mirage</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="VLC media player">
<action name="Execute">
<command>vlc</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GIMP">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gimp-2.6</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-openbox" label="Openbox">
<item label="Reconfigure Openbox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>openbox --reconfigure</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<separator/>
<menu id="menu-openbox" label="Openbox">
<item label="Reconfigure Openbox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>openbox --reconfigure</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<item label="Logout">
<action name="Execute">
<command>shutdown-dialog.py</command>
</action>
</item>
</openbox_pipe_menu>
I guess the problem is "Htop" is a CLi program and normally when i want to invoke unetbootin / imagewriter, i'm using "gksu <command>" using manual menu.xml configuration.
Hope it's help

[SOLVED]Root Privilege Command in Openbox Menu

This is my first post as a arch user, and I just thought I would start by saying hi!!!
Anyway, I have recently moved from CrunchBang linux 9.04 to Arch linux. I have setup an openbox session as my default. I have gotten everything to work so far except for one thing:
Lets say you something to the openbox menu, like gparted. Gparted requires root privilege to run. Under ubuntu/debian, I would simply use "gksu gparted" as the command because that would prompt me for the password and then run the program. I am not aware of any way to do such a thing in arch linux. Is there a simple way to do this?
-thanks
Last edited by Dr Belka (2010-04-04 17:54:48)

You're in Arch country now, boy. You want fancy gksu, you pacMAN up and install it.
Also note gksu comes with gksudo so you can use your password rather than roots - assuming you're in the sudoers file.
Last edited by Mardoct (2010-04-04 17:53:15)

I'm a newbee, (Win Tech) Would like to know what command it is for reaching the reinstall menu at boot-up. I do not meen cmd r menu wich just install OSX above the OS. I think I need a totally fresh installation. Do you have any clue?

I'm a newbee, (Win Tech) Would like to know what command it is for reaching the reinstall menu at boot-up.
I do not meen cmd r menu wich just install OSX above the OS. I think I need a totally fresh installation.
Do you have any clue? Have several issues on a new MacBookPro but it's propably "PEBKAC" made..
Uffe

It is Command+r or for the online internet system it is Command+option/Alt+r keys. Then you use Disk Utility to erase the macintosh partition, from the built in recovery hd, or you can repartition the drive as one partition from the online system.
To actually get to the online internet system you have to hold that key combo down until you see a globe on the screen. Otherwise it will just boot from the built in recovery hd on the internal drive.

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