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It's working good on Debian Squeeze, very sympathic works ! Thanks to share that !

Thanks, this is fixed !

Probably expected, but this doesn't work with #! x86_64... Thanks anyway.

Ah ju1ius, one bug report, or enhancement request:
marchobmenu doesn't seem to look in /usr/local/shared/applications for .desktop files.
When I installed fotoxx from a .deb that's where it went, and fotoxx didn't appear in your menu.
xfce's menu got it OK.

Last edited by johnraff (2010-01-25 11:34:15)

I just couldn't install the deb package: "Error: Wrong architecture 'i386'".

On review, the problem resides with the deb not being compatible with 'all' instead of just 'i386' (haven't tried the dpkg --force route).

Ticket opened: http://code.google.com/p/marchobmenu/issues/detail?id=2

TIA,

That's fair enough. There is a point of view that  /usr/share should be only for apps installed though the "official" system channels, and anything else should go in /usr/local, but it comes down to taste here I suppose, or whether a lot of your system is locally compiled or mostly from the repositories. A lot of deb files that you can download independently seem to install to /usr/local, which I prefer I think.

So it wasn't a bug it was a feature

(still a very nice menu btw)

ju1ius, it might need a little tweaking: I didn't find any "wine" category (I have got wine installed), and the "other" category has some empty spaces.

I find this a very useful addition to the default #! menu, and I'm happy to help if I can...

I'll post a bug report, but might as well put it here too. Some entries in ~/.config/openbox/marchobmenu/submenus/Others were for apps not installed that had left desktop files behind: those appeared in the menu, as of course they should - I deleted the desktop files. The blank spaces in the "Others" menu were related to real desktop files, but the data had been corrupted. You can see also that the ".desktop" ending had been dropped from the filenames. Here's the file:

  <item label="About Xfce" id="/usr/share/applications/xfce4-about-xfce.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>xfce4-about</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Browse C:\ Drive" id="/usr/share/applications/wine-browsedrive.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>xdg-open .wine/dosdevices/c:</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Configure Wine" id="/usr/share/applications/wine-winecfg.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>winecfg</execute></action></item>
  <item label="File Manager" id="/usr/share/applications/xfce4-file-manager.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>Thunar</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Help" id="/usr/share/applications/xfce4-help.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>xfhelp4</execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/firefox-3.5"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-base"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-calc"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-draw"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-impress"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-math"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-writer"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="" id="/usr/share/applications/python2.5"><action name="Execute"><execute></execute></action></item>
  <item label="IE6" id="/usr/share/applications/ie6.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>ie6</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Log Out" id="/usr/share/applications/xfce4-logout.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>xfce4-session-logout</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Notepad" id="/usr/share/applications/wine-notepad.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>notepad</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Run Program..." id="/usr/share/applications/xfce4-run-program.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>xfrun4</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Terminal" id="/usr/share/applications/xfce4-term.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Uninstall Wine Software" id="/usr/share/applications/wine-uninstaller.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>wine uninstaller</execute></action></item>
  <item label="Web Browser" id="/usr/share/applications/xfce4-web-browser.desktop"><action name="Execute"><execute>exo-open --launch WebBrowser </execute></action></item>

Now, moving the desktop files related to the bad entries out of /usr/share/applications and logging out/in again resulted in no change to the "others" file. The deleted files (eg the "About Xfce" entry at the top) were still referred to, as were the ones that had been moved out. Moving them back in and redoing logout/in again made no change. A desktop file I created yesterday (the "IE6" item) was correctly added to the menu though...

Here's the marchobmenu.log file:

============================> /usr/lib/marchobmenu/./marchobmenu-launcher
Starting marchobmenu-launcher
daemon found 5165 john     inotifywait -q -m -r --format %f -e create /home/john/.config/openbox/marchobmenu/triggers
killing 5165
Check for pending updates ...
============================> /usr/lib/marchobmenu/./marchobmenu-userdaemon

( desktop files moved )

============================> /usr/lib/marchobmenu/./marchobmenu-launcher
Starting marchobmenu-launcher
daemon found 8295 john     inotifywait -q -m -r --format %f -e create /home/john/.config/openbox/marchobmenu/triggers
killing 8295
Check for pending updates ...
============================> /usr/lib/marchobmenu/./marchobmenu-userdaemon

(desktop files restored)

============================> /usr/lib/marchobmenu/./marchobmenu-launcher
Starting marchobmenu-launcher
daemon found 10431 john     inotifywait -q -m -r --format %f -e create /home/john/.config/openbox/marchobmenu/triggers
killing 10431
Check for pending updates ...
============================> /usr/lib/marchobmenu/./marchobmenu-userdaemon

Anyway, I'll post all this to that google site as well.

Trying it on Arch now and have a new problem (most probably caused by me )

Here is the issue.

[fixed] Ok, fixed it now. Not my error, the outputted xml had an unescaped '&' that was breaking the menu.

Last edited by tawan (2010-03-06 00:14:16)

ju1ius, I owe you a humble apology - I was using the previous version of marchobmenu, 0.1.1-1. (Fortunately I did mark it as such in the bug report.)

When I deleted my ~/.config/openbox/marchobmenu folder and upgraded to 0.1.2-1 everything was fixed! Openoffice entries are fine, likewise "wine" and "others" categories, no blank entries and no leftover entries from deleted .desktop files. marchobmenu is a very nice addition to the openbox menu.

Now the only issue remaining is desktop files with the line
Terminal=true
for example the menu "htop" entry is executed with the command "htop", where "terminator htop" or "x-terminal-emulator htop" would be needed. I'll post a report. (marchobmenu is not alone here though, the xfce menu seems to have the same problem.)

Marchobmenu first stable release is out !

It has been heavily refactored the daemon is still very lightweight (written in bash),
but the menu is now generated by a python script,
and is now fully XDG compliant thanks to the python-xdg module !

Please check it out on github:
http://github.com/ju1ius/marchobmenu
There's also a package available:
http://github.com/ju1ius/marchobmenu/downloads

PS:
apologies for my long silence here but I was stuck with an old mint-fluxbox-5 distro,
and couldn't develop this furthermore.
I'm now back to openbox, with a new shiny "crunbangified" Debian Sid !