Re: how to change language for pipemenus

On 10/25/2014 08:09 PM, Micha wrote:
> Am 26.10.2014 01:16, schrieb Frank McCormick:
>> On 10/25/2014 07:04 PM, Micha wrote:
>>> Am 25.10.2014 23:20, schrieb Frank McCormick:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> First, thanks for bringing this up, I wasn't aware of obmenu-generator.
>>> I googled a little around and found out, there are some others too.
>>>
>>> But have you considered the mostobvious solution, the "inbuild" Debian
>>> menu ?
>>> It's more kind of a half-automatic solution, but it works nearly perfect
>>> for
>>> all applications installed with your package manager.
>>> The only issue there is, it does not find all icons, leaving a space
>>> then.
>>>
>>> The OB doc "Help:Menus - The Debian menu" explains everything in detail.
>>>
>>> The docs are also very helpful to get you starting configuring the
>>> rc.xml
>>> and the menu.xml, there is no need for a generator doing it for you.
>>> It is very, very simple, and once you got the trick, you can't stop
>>> building
>>> static and dynamic menus on your own, believe me !
>>>
>>> Micha
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>    I never did get obmenu-generator working properly - I had all sorts
>> of problems which may or may not have stemmed from the program..most
>> likely not :)
>>
>> I did find one which "worked out of the box"....from a French website
>> it's called openbox-menu and once I had compiled it and did the
>> appropriate incantations over menu.xml and rc.xml...it worked
>> beautifully. The Debian one is also good...but there are no icons in
>> it's menu. Openbox is a great window manager...but the menu situation
>> (written in xml for Gods sake) bugs me no end. Good things there's a
>> GUI editor for the menus....I go cross-eyed looking at xml in a text
>> editor :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
> There are icons in the menus, if you have set
> <applicationIcons>yes</applicationIcons>
> in the menu section in the rc.xml, after the mouse section .
> Try to get familiar with the Xml-code, choose a nice color for it in
> your editor, and most
> important, use a clean formatting style which is easy readable.
> And of course, *you* should not bug it, it's extreme sensitive !

    That worked here. But not all items have icons. I guess the system 
can't find some of them.
I should check to see if I have the same problem as you do...but I 
hesitate to meddle in the rc.xml file again :)


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