Openbox session broken

[jlf001]

Icons are back after last update!!  Thanks.

Jeff

[Neal ManBear]

Icons are back after last update!!  Thanks.

Jeff

     
Woohoo! Finally!      

[kjdixo]

Thanks for fixing the menu icons.

[djohnston]

They're back! Thanks, Neal. Can you fix my tint2 panel?  Just kidding.

[LKJ]

they're back...booooo!  and what happened to melodie's post on how to turn them off again?

[melodie]

they're back...booooo!   and what happened to melodie's post on how to turn them off again?

Hi LKJ, what about looking in console at the output of "openbox-menu --help" ? It shows several options and the one I said how to is in there.

Go to menu.lst, third line...

$ openbox-menu --help
*Utilisation :
  openbox-menu [OPTION...] [menu]  - Openbox menu generator 0.3.6.6

Options de l'aide :
  -h, --help             Affiche les options de l'aide

Options de l'application :
  -c, --comment          Display comment instead of application name
  -i, --noicons          Don't display icons in menu
  -t, --terminal=cmd     Terminal command (default sakura -e)
  -g, --gnome            Display GNOME entries
  -k, --kde              Display KDE entries
  -x, --xfce             Display XFCE entries
  -r, --rox              Display ROX entries

I am happy to know that the icons are back. However there is something not clear to me : turzin at French forum says his PCLOS Education lost the session after he updated. In /etc/X11/xdg/wmsession.d/ he has a file having for name 25openbox and the session does not start and says something about a file 26Openbox (the one under /etc/X11/xdg/dm/Sessions/ ).

I have downloaded the package and looked into it, the file is 25openbox, but I think it should have become 26openbox : did the users here already fix it manually before when there has been a break of the session ?

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,102633.0.html

no exec line in the session file: 26Opnebox
Running the gnome failsafe session instead.

[LKJ]

Hi LKJ, what about looking in console at the output of "openbox-menu --help" ? It shows several options and the one I said how to is in there.

Go to menu.lst, third line...

thanks melodie. I'm not sure what's wrong but if I try to add the -i switch to the third line of menu.xml, the icons go away but the applications items no longer work.

[melodie]

   <menu id="desktop-app" label="Applications" execute="openbox-menu -g -i -t 'sakura -e'" />

It should look like this, and once the change saved, you should reload the openbox configuration. (main Openbox menu > Openbox > Reload Openbox, or in console as simple user : "openbox --reconfigure").

How have you proceed ?

PS: I just tried here, it works.

[LKJ]

   <menu id="desktop-app" label="Applications" execute="openbox-menu -g -i -t 'sakura -e'" />

It should look like this, and once the change saved, you should reload the openbox configuration. (main Openbox menu > Openbox > Reload Openbox, or in console as simple user : "openbox --reconfigure").

How have you proceed ?

I'll try once more... perhaps the order makes a difference... I tried "-i -g -t" and "-g -t -i" but not "-g -i -t"   brb

edit: that was the problem. danke 

[melodie]

I'll try once more... perhaps the order makes a difference... I tried "-i -g -t" and "-g -t -i" but not "-g -i -t"   brb

edit: that was the problem. danke  

Well, -g is to say : "display the menu entries from Gnome applications", -t says "the terminal given just after will be used". So if you put the -i between the '-t' and the 'sakura -e' you kind of interrupt the discussion between '-t' and 'sakura -e'.

[LKJ]

I'll try once more... perhaps the order makes a difference... I tried "-i -g -t" and "-g -t -i" but not "-g -i -t"   brb

edit: that was the problem. danke 

Well, -g is to say : "display the menu entries from Gnome applications", -t says "the terminal given just after will be used". So if you put the -i between the '-t' and the 'sakura -e' you kind of interrupt the discussion between '-t' and 'sakura -e'.
okay, makes sense. 

[melodie]

A detail : if you type "openbox-menu --help" in your console, you should get the whole output in English.

Edit : I just tried a -i added before the -g : here it works. I was wondering why it would not... didn't see any reason.

Now, back to icons here !

I use LinuxLex8, I like it very much ! (from gnome-look.org I think... )

[LKJ]

A detail : if you type "openbox-menu --help" in your console, you should get the whole output in English.

yes I got that part. I didn't know one would have to explicitly use the -g switch before the -i switch. I thought -i would just tell it to not display the icons for the gnome apps. seems I was wrong. 

[LKJ]

btw, when I first tried to do this I tried adding the switch using the openbox menu editor. it seems it wouldn't save the switch that way. I had to edit the menu.xml file directly. also in my install anyway it was spelled obenbox. 

[melodie]

I rephrase : here, "-i -g -t" works. No icons, and the apps do start. (I edit with geany text editor)

What is spelled obenbox in your install ? (joke : did it catch a cold ?)