obamenu for Debian
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obamenu (New version 1.1.7) is a free open source utility that automagically
creates menus for openbox, an X window manager.
openbox does have built-in menu capabilities. Unfortunately, though, those
menus must be created manually in openbox's menu.xml config file. While some
users (and potential users!) find this generally cumbersome it is also
unwieldy when installing new applications.
That's where obamenu enters the scene. obamenu automagically creates complete
openbox menus based on looking at, analyzing, and working on xdg information
provided by most applications. Being badass fast obamenu can be included as a
dynamic item in menu.xml (example is in the docu) providing the user with an
always up to date menu. In case you install a new application, simply have
obox restart (which takes ~ 1 second) to find the new application right away
in the menu.
While efforts were undertaken to keep obamenu small, resource friendly and
fast (i.e. in line with the philosophy of small windows manager) it is
actually quite capable and knows some tricks such as associating the proper
icons with a menu entry.
Of course, obamenu does not interfere with any "hard wired" menu entries you
might have made but rather complements them and nicely fits in, either in the
root menu or in some sub menu like "Applications".
-- fosslinux <fosslinux@tilde.team> Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:37:54 +1100
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