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kri5

#! Die Hard

From: L.G.C. UK

Registered: 2011-11-10

Posts: 568

[Resolved] GUI Menu Editor (obmenu) not working

I was fiddling with my #! Statler (November 2011 ISO) as you do, can't remember what i was doing but i later noticed that the GUI Menu Editor (obmenu) was no longer working.  When i selected the GUI Menu Editor from 'Menu > Settings > Openbox > GUI Menu Editor' nothing happened.

Then i selected 'Edit menu.xml' from 'Menu > Settings > Openbox > Edit menu.xml' and scrolled down until i found the following at line 380 (in mine anyway).

                <item label="GUI Menu Editor">
                    <action name="Execute">
                        <execute>
                            obmenu
                        </execute>

I noticed that GUI Menu Editor executes 'obmenu', so i tried to run obmenu in the Terminal and got the following error:

File "/usr/bin/obmenu", line 21, in <module>
import obxml, gtk, gtk.glade, gobject, random, time, os, sys
ImportError: No module named obxml

I did some magic on Google and came across this:

http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-closed/ … 00132.html

It states that the bug is fixed in the latest version of 'obmenu' so i opened Synaptic and searched for 'obmenu', the version i had installed was something along the line of 1.0-1b (or something like that, sorry didn't note it down).  I did a re-load to see if there was a newer version and there wasn't, so i enabled the SID testing repository and re-loaded.  Sure enough this time there was a new version, '1.0-2', so i upgraded obmenu.

At this point i crossed my fingers and then breathed a sigh of relief when the GUI Menu Editor worked...Result!!

Sorry i couldn't remember all the fine detail but i hope this is of some help to other CrunchBangers out there.

Last edited by kri5 (2012-01-20 21:45:36)

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chrisvan86

New Member

Registered: 2012-06-20

Posts: 1

Re: [Resolved] GUI Menu Editor (obmenu) not working

Thank you!
i had EXACLTY the same and fixed in 10 seconds with this info