....just me or does anyone else get a "wots up" moment  (when messing on another distro) when left hand, first and second finger taps, produce zero response?

have you set up pcmanfm, or some other program to manage your desktop?

failing that have you modified ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml ?

i think this is the part that brings up the main menu (it towards the bottom)

    <context name="Root">
      <!-- Menus -->
      <mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
        <action name="ShowMenu">
          <menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
        </action>
      </mousebind>
      <mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
        <action name="ShowMenu">
          <menu>root-menu</menu>
        </action>
      </mousebind>
    </context>

middle click (or left and right together) should ring up the menu you described, right click brings up the main menu.

if all else fails windows_key + space should bring up the main menu, as should right clicking at the very top of the screen (openbox leaves a one pixel high row at the top of the screen free so you can access the menu when you have maximised windows etc).

alt+f2

gedit /home/YOUR USERNAME/.config/openbox/menu.xml

Oh also I'd like the root menu to show when i right click on tint2, and supposedly this is done by adding wm_menu=1 to the config... but I can't get it to work (with the root menu or desktop switcher menu... no response)

any help i'd really appreciate, thanks #! guys.