Re: how to change language for pipemenus
Frank McCormick <beacon-XzQKRVe1yT0V+D8aMU/[email protected]>
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One and the same. See my reply to "TT" on that forum. When I didn't get any responses here initially, I went to linuxforums to see if anyone there had some suggestions. I have tried about 4 menu utilities for Openbox - one of two which work properly I found at a site in France....the other is the one provided in the Debian repositories. On 10/25/2014 03:46 PM, TT wrote: > 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 :) >>>> >> >> ////trimmed for length //// >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > openbox mailing list > [email protected] > http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox -- 1984 was not meant as a blueprint for democratic governments. _______________________________________________ openbox mailing list [email protected] http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox