Openbox menu

[Orioa]

hello,
I am new here and have searched the forum so i apolagize if this question has already been asked..i want to edit the nebu in openbox looked everywere google has pointed me but no luck if any one can help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

[Neal ManBear]

hello,
I am new here and have searched the forum so i apolagize if this question has already been asked..i want to edit the nebu in openbox looked everywere google has pointed me but no luck if any one can help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

Install obmenu. It is a GUI tool for editing openbox menu.

[Orioa]

Thank you will give it a try

[Orioa]

i installed obmenu but when i click on it nothing happens

[Neal ManBear]

Start it from a terminal with the command obmenu. Post back with any feedback to the terminal from that command. It needs to be the exact wording, please.

[Orioa]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/obmenu", line 21, in <module>
    import obxml, gtk, gtk.glade, gobject, random, time, os, sys
ImportError: No module named gtk
that is what post after i try to run it in terminal

[Neal ManBear]

Are you using The openbox full or mini?

Open Synaptic and make sure these are installed -
libgtk+1.2
libgtk+2.0
gtkdialog
gtk+2.0

They should be, but if not, install what is missing and try again to launch obmenu. If they are installed, reinstall them and try again to launch obmenu.

[Orioa]

i am using full i did what you suggested but it still doesn't work

[melodie]

i am using full i did what you suggested but it still doesn't work

Hi,

I am in a wonder about what you are doing, and about what you are trying to do.

So, you can edit Openbox menus several ways : by hand, or with the help of guis. You will have to distinguish between the main Openbox menu : the one you get first when you do a right click on desktop or on panel, and the submenus which are the one when you reach the first sub-menus.

The main menu, as well as most of the shortcuts with keyboard and mouse are ruled by the file ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml, and the submenu shortcuts are ruled by the file ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml.

Then there are a few more possibilities : wether you are using a PCLinuxOS Lxde, or using a PCLinuxOS Openbox. This is not the same, because on Lxde version it's Openbox vanilla (original configuration with original files) which is used, but in PCLinuxOS Openbox the right-click menus are ruled by the program openbox-menu, and the submenus are updated dynamically (=automatically).

So my next questions are simple: what PCLinuxOS version do you use ? What exactly is that you would like to change in the menus ?

Regards,
Mélodie