Re: how to change language for pipemenus
Frank McCormick <beacon-XzQKRVe1yT0V+D8aMU/[email protected]>
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On 10/24/2014 07:19 PM, TT wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: >> >> I fixed that by copying them over > oh please don't do that. so much can go wrong. are you sure perl can't > find them otherwise? that would be a serious problem with your distro's > packet management. They weren't packages from Debian - they were tar balls I un-tared compiled and installed using the makefile I assumed at the time they went where they were "supposed to" but they didn't. I'd have a heck of a job finding them again and reinstalling. It's rapidly becoming a problem that is more than it's worth :) > or maybe you can reinstall those packages, this time to /usr/share? >> - but now when I insert a pipe menu using obmenu-generator using >> OBMenu...I get invalid output. > openbox is very roundabout with this error message - could be anything. > do this: > obmenu-generator -i -p> sometextfile From a terminal? > then, in menu.xml, change the pipemenu's command to > cat /full/path/to/sometextfile > now you can open sometextfile in an editor and try to find & repair the > error manually. this should give you an idea of what went wrong. I ran it from a terminal but it created a test file with only one line...something about pipe menu sucessfully created > btw, what distro/system are you running? Debian Sid >> >> The line I'm using is "obmenu-generator -i -p" which according to the >> docs should generate a pipe menu. >> >> I haven't figured out how to include a static menu in menu.xml yet. >> The whole system is confusing to me...or maybe I'm getting old :) >> >> >> On 10/24/2014 05:35 PM, TT wrote: >>> sorry, the conversation had already evolved when i sent my last >>> answer... >>> anyhow, that's trizen's script, a good one. >>> it requires your attention: there should be 2 files in >>> ~/.config/obmenu-generator, schema.pl and config.pl. >>> hopefully they can be adjusted to display in english again. look at the >>> files, they contain some sort of documentation. >>> if you don't have them, copy them over from /etc/xdg/obmenu-generator/ >>> btw, i'm using the same script and just updated it and it's still >>> english. >>> >>> good luck. >>> ////trimmed for length //// -- 1984 was not meant as a blueprint for democratic governments. _______________________________________________ openbox mailing list [email protected] http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox