Openbox right-click menu reloading

[djohnston]

Here is what I have in the /etc/xdg/autostart directory:

$ ls -l /etc/xdg/autostart
total 60
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  210 avril 23 06:32 evolution-alarm-notify.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7220 avril  7 10:43 gdu-notification-daemon.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2791 sept. 30  2010 gnome-keyring-gpg.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5249 sept. 30  2010 gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5000 sept. 30  2010 gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4065 sept. 30  2010 gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5535 avril  8 06:57 gsettings-data-convert.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  291 nov.   9  2009 pam-panel-icon.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1111 janv.  2  2011 parcellite-startup.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4006 juin  21 12:39 user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  219 juin  14 23:05 volumeicon.desktop

Now that you are saying this, I wonder if it would not be wise to check this directory before remastering starting from the next quarterlies ? Should the ones which are at same time there and setup in .config/openbox/autostart.sh be systematically removed ?

Yes. The entries in /etc/xdg/autostart are new global session startup files. So, they should not be duplicated in the user's autostart.sh file.

What I can't understand is how my user-added autostart.sh entries (parcellite, wbar, guake and update-notifier) were recreated as desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart. And why the qasmixer and net_applet entries were not.

 I could not see anymore where it was really going, and stopped trying to understand this complex process.

I think the "complex process" is a necessary evil in making the Openbox menus XDG-compliant. I also believe it could be streamlined somewhat. But, I haven't dug into the entire process yet.

[clarms]

So it seems for a temporary workaround to control one the entries, as in having one NOT run, is to remove the global entry in /etc/xdg/autostart and then comment or uncomment the choice in the ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. Is this right?

[djohnston]

So it seems for a temporary workaround to control one the entries, as in having one NOT run, is to remove the global entry in /etc/xdg/autostart and then comment or uncomment the choice in the ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. Is this right?

Because the desktop files Melodie ended up with in /etc/xdg/autostart directory are different than the set I ended up with, I cannot be sure what is supposed to be there by default.

Be on the safe side. As root, make a folder in /etc/xdg. I named mine /etx/xdg/autostart-moved. I then looked at what entries were in my ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file. If there was a desktop file that duplicated what was already in my autostart.sh file, I moved the desktop file to the folder named "autostart-moved".

Also be aware that the icon names you see in the /etc/xdg/autostart directory, when looking at the contents of that directory in the file browser, do not match the actual desktop file names. While looking at the directory, use the file manager to open a terminal window. Then you can list the actual desktop names.




I would be interested in your results. I am sure Melodie will be too.

[melodie]

Hi,

djohnston, another way to make it safe, is to copy the whole directory foo to foo-backup as root, this way:

# cd /etc/xdg //we go to /etc/xdg
# cp -R autostart autostart-back //the directory is therefore created with the full content from the source directory

Then you can start to do what you need to in the autostart directory.

[Yankee]

I applied a few changes in openbox-menu a few minutes ago. It uses now a 'synced' method for querying data to menucache lib. I think it should be better for refreshing the menu faster but the lack of documentation for menucache is not helping.

mimas,

How often is the user menu synced ?   The root openbox-menu is fine but my user openbox-menu
has some day old changes that haven't been "synced".   Everything has been updated as well.

THX.

[melodie]

I applied a few changes in openbox-menu a few minutes ago. It uses now a 'synced' method for querying data to menucache lib. I think it should be better for refreshing the menu faster but the lack of documentation for menucache is not helping.

mimas,

How often is the user menu synced ?   The root openbox-menu is fine but my user openbox-menu
has some day old changes that haven't been "synced".   Everything has been updated as well.

THX.

Hi,

You can move the $HOME/.cache/menu directory out of the way now, it will be recreated at once. Then look again to the menu entries which had not been sinced : if they are still there the problem comes from elsewhere (the /usr/share/applications directory where the desktop files live, for instance).

Regards,
Mélodie

[Yankee]

You can move the $HOME/.cache/menu directory out of the way now, it will be recreated at once.

Yes, it immediately resynced then and is fine.  Installed 2 programs and then uninstalled them
and those changes synced at once also.  Have to remember this one, still haven't upgraded
my Bonsai  backup drive.

Thank You.

Patrick

[mimas]

> How often is the user menu synced ?

Now it's every time it opens (every time openbox-menu is launched to be correct). The refresh for the old version was about seconds, not days.

As Mélodie wrote, you can delete ~/.cache/menu directory to force libmenu-cache to reread desktop files. It's theorically not needed but it can help when the menu is wrong or you need a quick refresh. I've done it only once or twice.

[djohnston]

mimas,

Thanks for your work on openbox-menu. It works flawlessly on my installations.

[Yankee]

> How often is the user menu synced ?

Now it's every time it opens (every time openbox-menu is launched to be correct). The refresh for the old version was about seconds, not days.

As Mélodie wrote, you can delete ~/.cache/menu directory  to force libmenu-cache to reread desktop files. It's theorically not needed but it can help when the menu is wrong or you need a quick refresh. I've done it only once or twice.

Well deleting the  ~/.cache/menu directory was an instant cure when launching openbox-menu was not.   So
deleting the  ~/.cache/menu directory  is the more powerful option when the menu refresh may stall.   All is well and
all the programs I needed are installed and remastered today.   Another happy customer.

Thanks for the info.

Patrick