On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 5:22 PM Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 12:20 +1000, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: > > > > > > > On 18 Aug 2022, at 02:52, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > > > > My experience with LXDE and Openbox is that the system menu is pretty > > > much given > > > to > > > you on LXDE/Openbox install. My experience based on LXDE and Openbox on > > > Ubuntu, > > > Debian and Void is that installing a package doesn't put the package's > > > executable in > > > the LXDE or Openbox system menu. This is why I use dmenu as my main menu. > > > Dmenu > > > is > > > faster and requires no mouse. > > > > > > SteveT > > > > Can dmenu search and run applications from .desktop files like the xfce4- > > appfinder, or does it just search through executables in bin/ directories? > > I’ve > > been looking for an xfce4-appfinder replacement without dbus dependency. > > > > Tom > > If all your .desktop files are in the same directory, you could write a simple > companion shellscript to list them, allow you to select one, and run it. > > As far as dbus, at 14 I walked a mile to dbus in order to go to dschool. > > SteveT
I use a package for my fluxbox menu to interpret all those /usr/share/application/*.desktop files: xdgmenumaker [0]. I package it for myself in my OBS repository [1] for Devuan Ceres. It requires a step in the ~/.fluxbox/startup to run and update the menu for the user, because it will also interpret the ~/.local/share/applications as part of that XDG specification (which, is the same group of people as systemd, so take this with few grains of salt!). [0]: https://github.com/gapan/xdgmenumaker/ [1]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:bgstack15/xdgmenumaker -- B. Stack _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
