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sewmyheadon

#! CrunchBanger

From: Gig Harbor, WA, USA

Registered: 2008-12-16

Posts: 169

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[Solved] Openbox right-click menu broken (aka. sloppy autostart.sh)

Okay, so I was 90% of the way through posting for help and fixed my own darn problem, so I'm posting both problem and solution in case someone else has the same issue.

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Hi Folks,

I've been very careful with my new #! install, but seem to have messed something up accidentally.

I removed some applications that I didn't use and edited the Openbox menu using the GUI editor.

Symptom
Everything seemed fine for a while, but now I can't right-click and see the Openbox menu at all.  It's almost like the machine's frozen.  Luckily, I have the Application Launch Bar on the panel so I can launch Terminator and Firefox.  In Terminator, I can run openbox --debug and I'll get my menu back.

After some searching, it seems like a likely cause is corruption, or malformed syntax in either the menu.xml or rc.xml files. 

I checked these and they seemed okay.  Didn't validate 100%, but the errors were nothing serious.

Problem
The problem turned out to be in the autostart.sh file.  I'm a fan of Dropbox and followed pbsMind's minimal Dropbox install instructions in this thread.

The last step is to "Add this line ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd & to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file"

I mistakenly forgot the & symbol.

FIX
Put the darn & symbol in and reboot.

Meh!

ZeroTruths

#! Junkie

Registered: 2008-12-31

Posts: 331

Re: [Solved] Openbox right-click menu broken (aka. sloppy autostart.sh)

Ah, yes.
The dreaded & symbol.
I've felt your pain

Glad you were able to get it sorted out tho

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corenominal

root

From: Lincoln, UK

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 4,887

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Re: [Solved] Openbox right-click menu broken (aka. sloppy autostart.sh)

Indeed, the dreaded ampersand. See Nik_Doof's idea: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … tostartsh/ -- if implemented correctly, it may eliminate this as a problem. It would be good to see some discussion/thoughts on the subject. Probably best to post to Nik_Doof's thread.

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