[SOLVED] Automatic Menu

stolid · 2012-11-01 03:10:08

In other distros (using gnome, xfce, etc), when a program is installed it is typically added automatically to the menu in an appropriate category. I know there are programs that will generate this menu for openbox, but is there say a pipe-menu that can do this automatically on the fly? I'd like to have my typical CrunchBang menu but with a submenu that contains the same contents you'd find in another DE's menu, updated automatically. Is there such a thing?

I hate having to dig around the system for the proper executable to run for a package I just installed (which doesn't always match the package name). When packages are installed, what are they doing to put themselves in other distros' menus?

Last edited by stolid (2012-11-04 05:04:06)

mikhou · 2012-11-01 04:28:25

I use uxdgmenu, and I love it. Do a google search for it. It's got 4 different pipe menus that you can add to the standard #! menu - applications, recent files, places, and bookmarks. I only use the applications and recent files menu, but again, it works really well.

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machinebacon · 2012-11-01 07:50:39

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Menus#If_y … ebian_menu
That would be the automatically updating debian-menu

stolid · 2012-11-01 18:02:46

machinebacon wrote:

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Menus#If_y … ebian_menu
That would be the automatically updating debian-menu

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#1 2012-11-01 03:10:08

[SOLVED] Automatic Menu

#2 2012-11-01 04:28:25

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