Re: how to change language for pipemenus

i just noticed that someone named frank, from canada, using debian sid & 
openbox, has very similar problems, but with a different menu generator:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux/203309-openbox-menu-problems-sid.html

i'm starting to feel a little pissed off here...

Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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 ////
>
>
>

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