[Solved] Obmenu problems

[cynclida]

Hi, first of all thanks for this nice and well-done linux distro.

Installed base-version with openbox. To configure a customized openbox menu, I installed obmenu. But obmenu works just with root privileges, and -the real problem- it opens the file /root/.config/openbox/menu.xml, no way to open the flie I wanted to edit, which is /home/myuser/.config/menu.xml.

Finally I configured the menu editing menu.xml manually, but it is really strange. On another machine I run Debian testing, and there obmenu runs without root privileges and accesses the correct menu.xml. What is the problem?

[pavroo]

Hi
Check who is the owner of the menu.xml file:

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ls -l /home/you/.confg/openbox/menu.xml
If not you, change it, as root:

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su
chown you:you /home/you/.confg/openbox/menu.xml

[cynclida]

Thanks for your reply.

Onwer of the /home/petra/.config/openbox/menu.xml file is me:

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petra@jft00:~$ ls -l /home/petra/.config/openbox/menu.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 petra petra 36788 Feb 15 23:47 /home/petra/.config/openbox/menu.xml


The problem remains unchanged. If it helps, this is the output of the obmenu command (without root privileges):

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petra@jft00:~$ obmenu
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/obmenu", line 617, in <module>
    app.init()
  File "/usr/bin/obmenu", line 610, in init
    self.createTree(None, None)
  File "/usr/bin/obmenu", line 41, in createTree
    if self.menu.getMenu(it["id"]) and it["action"] == "":
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/obxml.py", line 334, in getMenu
    d = self._get_menu_props(i)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/obxml.py", line 137, in _get_menu_props
    if mnu: lb = mnu.attributes["label"].nodeValue
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 522, in __getitem__
    return self._attrs[attname_or_tuple]
KeyError: 'label'


But don't worry, I can edit the  /home/petra/.config/openbox/menu.xml manually, just sometimes it's good to have the gui as well. And I really don't understand why it behaves like that.

[pavroo]

I remember now.
I saw the problem time ago and it came from Debian package.
That's why I removed it from Sparky's Openbox iso.
Somebody should reported it to Debian devs already I think.

[cynclida]

Ok, and I installed it right from the debian repo.

Thanks for the info. Maybe some upadate will repair it.

[cynclida]

Just could solve the problem: replace in ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml the lines

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<menu id="/Debian">
</menu>

by

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<menu id="/Debian" />


Then obmenu works as it should, also for general user.