• From: Klausenburg, Romania
  • Registered: 2010-07-26
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Topic: Nitrogen Preferences and Menumaker query

I also observed two bugs or not so good features.

In the openbox menu the choose wallpaper setting (nitrogen) is set only  to the wallpapers directory, so when you set anything in the preferences folder, it will dissapear when you reopen the app or worse, you wouldn't be able to set anything else than images in that folder.

Also, the menumaker application is not in any repository and is not installed.
I think it is a pretty important application for openbox, a lot of people are lazy to set the menu when they install a new application. Running mmaker is way more convenient.

Last edited by IsTI37 (2010-07-27 16:03:12)

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Re: Nitrogen Preferences and Menumaker query

IsTI37 wrote:

so when you set anything in the preferences folder, it will dissapear when you reopen the app or worse, you wouldn't be able to set anything else than images in that folder.

What do you mean by this?

Also afaik, Nitrogen can only access one folder at a time. If you have wallpapers in multiple folders, you can just create a folder symlink.

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  • From: Klausenburg, Romania
  • Registered: 2010-07-26
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Re: Nitrogen Preferences and Menumaker query

anonymous wrote:
IsTI37 wrote:

so when you set anything in the preferences folder, it will dissapear when you reopen the app or worse, you wouldn't be able to set anything else than images in that folder.

What do you mean by this?

Also afaik, Nitrogen can only access one folder at a time. If you have wallpapers in multiple folders, you can just create a folder symlink.

That's what I knew too.
But after I replaced the "nitrogen /home/user/images/wallpapers" with nitrogen in the menu I can put more than one folder at a time. This is the bug.

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Re: Nitrogen Preferences and Menumaker query

IsTI37 wrote:

Also, the menumaker application is not in any repository and is not installed.
I think it is a pretty important application for openbox, a lot of people are lazy to set the menu when they install a new application. Running mmaker is way more convenient.

the debian menu is already installed see here for instructions http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/configu … ating_menu

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Re: Nitrogen Preferences and Menumaker query

nitrogen has a preferences button where you can add multiple dirs but its overriden by command line
i.e.:

/etc/skel/.config/nitrogen:

[geometry]
posx=71
posy=85
sizex=450
sizey=500

[nitrogen]
view=list
icon_caps=false
dirs=/usr/share/wallpapers

and change the line in menu to just nitrogen please, thanks:)

Last edited by kook (2010-08-18 17:41:25)

  • deh
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  • Registered: 2009-11-27
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Re: Nitrogen Preferences and Menumaker query

I just changed the menu entry and it worked fine.

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