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No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade - Fixed

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No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade - Fixed

#1 Post by Bulkley »

After doing a aptitude full-upgrade I no longer have the Debian menu showing in the Openbox menu. According to Obmenu, Debian is listed; it's just not showing when I right click. The upgrade brought a new version of Openbox so I assume that has something to do with it. Has anyone else seen this? Any fix?
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Re: No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade

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Maybe here?
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Re: No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade

#3 Post by Bulkley »

Thanks.

Does anyone know how Obmenu calls the Debian menu? It should look for /var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml (I think). For some reason, it's not doing it.

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Re: No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade

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Bulkley wrote:Thanks.

Does anyone know how Obmenu calls the Debian menu? It should look for /var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml (I think). For some reason, it's not doing it.
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~/.config/openbox/menu.xml 
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<menu id="Debian"/>

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#5 Post by Bulkley »

bmc5311 wrote:look for:

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<menu id="Debian"/>
That's what I have. I have Fluxbox and Icewm on this machine and they both call up the Debian menu properly. Openbox does not. Something got lost in this last upgrade.

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Re: No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade

#6 Post by bmc5311 »

Bulkley wrote:
bmc5311 wrote:look for:

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<menu id="Debian"/>
That's what I have. I have Fluxbox and Icewm on this machine and they both call up the Debian menu properly. Openbox does not. Something got lost in this last upgrade.
You could try the following and see if it brings it back -
First: Back up your ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml file
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aptitude remove obmenu
aptitude purge ~c
aptitude install obmenu
I had a similar, but different problem about a month ago after an upgrade, obmenu stopped working all together. I removed it and re-instlled it and all was fine.

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Re: No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade - Fixed

#7 Post by Bulkley »

bmc5311 wrote:You could try the following and see if it brings it back -
First: Back up your ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml file
Bingo! That worked. I didn't even have to remove Obmenu. As soon as I started moving my favourites across I ran into syntax errors. I've had my old menu for several years now and the syntax has changed. I have to add favourites one at a time the hard way. That should keep me busy for a while. At least my Debian menu is back.

Thanks for the help.

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Re: No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade - Fixed

#8 Post by BlueSloth »

I had the same problem, but I didn't get any syntax errors.

I just noticed that the menu id of the menu defined in /var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml is now /Debian instead of Debian. I updated ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml accordingly, and it works now.

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Re: No Debian menu in Openbox after Testing upgrade - Fixed

#9 Post by TomG »

Great Thanks BlueSloth.
That was the point ! :D

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#10 Post by Bulkley »

BlueSloth wrote:I had the same problem, but I didn't get any syntax errors.

I just noticed that the menu id of the menu defined in /var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml is now /Debian instead of Debian. I updated ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml accordingly, and it works now.
Hey! You are right! Good eyes. Thanks.

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