Not long ago I told you about the benefits of installing and using a lightweight window manager in our Ubuntu. I told you about how to install and use it, in this case it was open box. Choosing open box It was based more on its support than on its lightness, which it does have. Openbox has been chosen as the default window manager for the LXDE desktop so it has extensive and very good documentation. Today I'm going to show you how modify, create or alter the menu in Openbox.
Creating a menu with Obmenu
If you remember from the previous post, when we installed open box, we also installed obconf and obmenu, the latter is used to graphically edit the menu. So we open the menu by pressing the right mouse button and open the terminal, in this case it is called «Terminal Emulator«. Now we write the following
sudo obmenu
This opens a screen similar to this:
This is the program Obmenu that allows us to configure, change or create our own menus in open box. To create a new entry in the menu, we mark the top entry where we want the menu to appear. Once marked, we press the button «New Item»And a new entry called«New Item»That we can modify with the options below. The first thing we can do is change «New Item" by "Applications»Or something similar, it is more personal. Once this is done, we repeat the above to have another item but below within this new menu. This item will be an application, for example Gimp and under the «Run»We look for the address where you are Gimp's bin file. Once all this is configured, click «Control»+«S»To save our modification and close it. Changes can also be made by opening the file menu.xml found in the folder .config / openbox / menu.xml. We can modify and create as many menus as we want, in addition we can also use scripts or menu entries that open certain folders such as «My Documents»Or«My images«(Is it familiar to you?). That would be the option of «pipe menu»Which is in the top menu called«Add«.
Many of you will have seen very cool Gnu / Linux or Ubuntu desktops with original menus that are very different from yours. Well, this is a good first step to achieve something similar. What are you saying? Do you dare?
More information - How to install Openbox in Ubuntu to lighten our system,
Install lubuntu, when I start I choose openbox as a desktop environment, I install obmenu by terminal and add another save item but the menu does not change.
Right click on the desktop> Settings> Openbox> Restart> You're welcome ...
It would be nice if you also write about pipe-menus that are SO useful and look so good on distros like Bunsenlabs. For users to also use pipe-menus on non-BL distros.