[Solved] Opening Openbox menu trough tint2

Is it somehow possible to open the Openbox root-menu trough a terminal command or such? (Or some inbuilt function in tint2)
Id like to use the clock click options in tint2 to open a menu trough that, ideally the openbox root-menu.
Or are there any other apps that would work like this (only open a menu that i can run stuff from near the cursor when run)?
Last edited by Envil (2010-11-18 19:35:52)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox
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[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>
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[Solved] gmrun & Openbox menu can't launch program but bash can.

Hey there.
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Last edited by anark10n (2015-02-22 16:35:17)

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[SOLVED] openbox menu command doesn't work with &&

I'm now using openbox-session only.
I'd like to run a program after something was done correctly:
zenity --question && killall openbox
I used "obmenu" and it seems that it fixes & to & correctly in the menu.xml.
However, the previous command "zenity" is run only.
In terminal, there's no problem, but it doesn't work with "command" in openbox menu.
<item label="Exit">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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Last edited by mairoo (2009-09-09 10:06:17)

hbekel wrote:
You'll need to use a shell explicitly:
<execute>
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I flagged "solved" thanks to your help. It works good. Thank you.

"Running" openbox menu?[SOLVED]

Is it possible to issue a command to open the root openbox menu(then menu that pops open on desktop right click)? I want to use that as a button in pypanel... Thanks for your time in advance.
Last edited by isolier (2009-01-24 17:56:45)

I asked myself the same question and found a great application called xdotool. I added it on AUR. One of its usage is to simulate a keypress. Simply add this code somewhere in the <keyboard> section of your rc.xml:
<keybind key="A-C-q">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>root-menu</menu>
</action>
</keybind>
Then, just lauch your menu with:
# xdotool key ctrl+alt+q
A launcher in pypanel would look something like this:
LAUNCH_LIST = [
("xdotool key ctrl+alt+q", "/usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.png"),
Of course, you can change the keyboard shortcut, etc...
Hope this helps.
-T
Last edited by rttommy (2008-01-30 00:23:26)

[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] Running wine prog from Openbox menu

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I've tried the suggestions here: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24893
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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.
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[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
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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)
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local/obmenu 1.0-9
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local/openbox-menu 0.3.6.6-1
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local/openbox-xdgmenu 0.3-2
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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">
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<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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</action>
</item>
<item label="Internet">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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</action>
</item>
<item label="Minitube">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
minitube
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</action>
</item>
<item label="Jeux de cartes">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
pysol
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</action>
</item>
<item label="LibreOffice Writer">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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</action>
</item>
<item label="LibreOffice Calc">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
libreoffice -calc
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</action>
</item>
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<action name="Execute">
<execute>
sakura
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</action>
</item>
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<item label="Restart Conky">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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</action>
</item>
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</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency, fading">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency, fading shadows">
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<execute>
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<item label="GUI Config Tool">
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<execute>
obconf
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</action>
</item>
<item label="Key Editor">
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<execute>
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<action name="Reconfigure"/>
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<action name="Restart"/>
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</action>
</item>
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</item>
<item label="In 10 Seconds...">
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</item>
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<execute>
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<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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<item label="Tint Wizard">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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</action>
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<execute>
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<action name="Execute">
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<action name="Execute">
<execute>
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Obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

I put the code:
<menu execute="obm-xdg" id="obm-xdg" label="xdg"/>
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[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.
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Make x64 default with "open with" menu

Ive seen several threads to make x32 the default but not to many to make x64 the defualt. It appears that once the install is made I cannot only uninstall the 32 bit photoshop, only both at the same time. I have recently moved from cs4 to cs5. Everything was working perfectly until I decided that I had fully made the transition and uninstalled CS4. Now Im having trouble getting images to open with photoshop in x64 mode. .PSDs will open with the defualt x64 but I use a different viewer for .jepgs. I typicaly open these file types with the right click "open with" command. Unfortunately this command always opens the file in 32 bit mode. I have even tried to use "open with - choose default program" and navigate to the Photoshop X64 folder and select the 64 bit executable from there, but it still opens with 32 bit photoshop. All I want if to be able to use the "Open With" menu to open .jpegs in 64 bit mode. Any advice? Thanks.

Solved it using this guide only pointing to the x64 bit instead.
http://forums.devshed.com/photoshop-help-88/file-association-opens-with-64-bit-photoshop-n ot-32t-724373.html
Solved it!
In my desperation I just began searching the registry for "Photoshop.exe" - There it had the path for the "Photoshop" that you see when you try to change an association (picking the 32bit version using "open with" doesn't matter because it recognizes it as Photoshop and defaults back to whatever the program is in this registry key).
This should make Photoshop 32 bit open every time you open a Photoshop-associated file.
Here is what I did, for anyone coming from Google:
Start > Run > regedit
Browse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\edit\command
Changed the value to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Photoshop.exe" "%1"
(old one was the 64 bit path and executable)
Did the same with HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\open\command

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!

Remove applications from the "open with" menu

How do you remove applications from the "open with" context menu? I seem to have one instance of a program for every time it was "updated." So my "open with" menu has about 8 instances of Adobe Acrobat, 3 or 4 of Word, etc. It's obnoxious and cumbersom. Any idea how to edit this context menu? Thanks.

hi joshua,
you can solve it in two ways:
1)open terminal and copy and paste:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister \
-kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
enter and wait the prompt
2) delete this files and restart
library/caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-xxxxx.csstore
(more than one files with the xxxx i mean number)
~/library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist

Open with menu not showing icons

Hi, since i installed Mavericks i've been experiencing some issues, and the one i need to solve right know is this:
In this example is only with media players but it happens with other apps too, both system and non-system apps. I've tried this command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user;killall Finder;echo "Open With has been rebuilt, Finder will relaunch"
that is used to delete duplicated items on "Open With" menu but it doesn't solve this Icon issue.. I also deleted com.apple.LaunchServices.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/ and it didn't helped. I don't know what to do anymore.
Please help me out with this, i don't want to do a fresh install again.

OS X does that constantly. If you click anywhere away from the contextual menu to close it, then perform the same right click, then they'll show.

"Open with" menu displaying the same apps several times...

I've tried googling this several times but never really found a good answer nor a way to solve this (see image below)...
As you can see, the "open with" menu displays the GROUP OF APPS several times, not just the apps themselves... Funny thing is, this only happens when I navigate with the keyboard to the "open with" option, i.e., if I highlight it with the mouse a correct menu pops up...!
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
NOTE: This has happened to me since Leopard.

Ok, I will try your suggestion (reinstalling Snow Leopard), maybe not today or tomorrow since this is my work computer but when I have a little time off...
Just so you can see the "error in action" (the 'insert video' button was disabled, hence the link): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10042917/Error.mov
It's a screen recording of me trying to "open with" an image file 1st using the mouse and then using the keyboard (NOTE: if the first navigation in the menu is done with the keyboard, i.e., if you highlight "open" using the keyboard and then navigate to "open with" with the mouse I will still get the repeated menu while... in other words, the use of the keyboard always activates the repeated menu.)
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