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Thanks A lot corenominal. I didn't really understand what you meant by

" Add the following line to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml where you would like the menu to appear:

<menu id="Debian" /> "

So I backed up the whole menu.xml , left the first line, and inserted <menu id="Debian" /> " ... worked like a charm... i'm assuming there was something I missed, i'm quite a n00b, I really like #! , it's giving me a chance to learn more. Thanks again!

using obm-xdg and a suitable xdg menu(I use /etc/xdg/xubuntu/menus/xfce-applications.menu)  in a piped menu works for me!
Shamelessly borrowed from

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Openbox

Andy

I love the way the openbox menu works now. Please don't change it. I never liked the debian menu either. Sometimes a program gets auto-added and sometimes it doesn't. And many times a program gets added to some weird category.

The way crunchbangs menu works now is terrific. It takes literally 5 seconds to add a new program to the menu, and you get to control what it's called and where it goes.

If you take the time to learn how to configure the menu (about 10 minutes), you won't be disappointed.

Here is a little tutorial I created. I hope it helps

http://sites.google.com/site/justabunchofstuff/

Last edited by mookiemu (2009-09-23 06:03:31)

Thanks!

I know what you mean about knowing the run command. But a simple google search will give you the execute command for just about any program. For instance, I only installed the spreadsheet from open office and not the whole suite, and I wanted to add it to the #! menu. For most programs, the execute command is obvious. Ie. for Gimp the execute command is gimp, for Firefox it's firefox, but for open office spreadsheet, it isn't so obvious. A quick google search bought back two results: ooffice -calc  and oocalc. And they both work.

I have yet to come across a program whose run command I haven't found on google. But I assume that this information would be somewhere on the program developers site and if all else fails you can probably post a question on the programs forum. I've never had to do this though.

lol! the search term I used was:
open office calc run command ubuntu

Funny thing is that google autofilled the search term as I typed it and I selected one. (How did we ever get along before google )

The very item at the top of the search results gave me a conversation from Ubuntu forums with both answers.

Nice tip! thanks

...or open Synaptic, find the app you installed, check "installed files" under properties and look for something in a 'bin' directory eg /bin or /usr/bin or maybe /usr/sbin or whatever. That's likely to be the command that came with that app. (There may be more than one command - sometimes you discover new uses for your app that way.)

I am actually liking the debian menu! yes there is alot more to go through to get to what you want but on my laptop i am using shortkeys most of the time anyway to go into things. what i like about debmenu so far is that its showing me things i didn't know i had on here but i also either don't need or was wondering what was being used for it. i think personally i am going to continue using it for the moment.

used to method corenominal mentioned and backed up "menu.xml" as "menu.xml.backup."
then after backing it up deleted everything except first and last line and entered to line "<menu id="Debian" />" and it worked like a charm. going to be removing alot of things i know for a fact i do not need but some of this stuff is pretty cool lol.

NOTE: when i went to install menu using sudo apt-get install menu it told me was already installed.

Try changing the entry in menu.xml to be <menu id="/Debian"/> as discussed on this thread by machinebacon http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … t-missing/