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technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

This uses 9menu (included with debian patches) to display an application menu for window managers that do not have one. Since it is pretty fast, I just have it rebuild the menus each time it runs, so you never need to run fixmenus or anything complicated.

Just set it to run with a keybinding, mouse button or via another app (such as wbar or dmenu)

... for whatever reason I decided not to make a menu entry for it Smile

sorry no screen shot at the moment - my left mouse button is broken, so proper cropping is near impossible

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 907

Nice...image provided below...changed default colors to BGCOLOR="steelblue" and FGCOLOR="black".

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

thanks for the screenie, nice color choice (I haven't played with the font settings or adding submenus yet btw)

with jwm I gave 9menu the same group settings as xmessage (notitle, nolist) - works really nicely, but some minimalistic window managers don't even have a built-in pager or title bars

p.s. as per usual - released to public domain and any OSI approved license with no warranties

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

Hi technosaurus,

Thank you - I have it added it to my System Tray (in Slacko 5.3.1 with jwm).

When I click on any of the categories - I expect there a way to go back to your Main Menu without closing and restarting, but I failed to find how and, although not vital, I would appreciate advice.

My regards

PS Perhaps I have a faulty download as nothing shows when I click Settings, Help or Shutdown whilst all other categories seem fine with the minor exception that "GNOME MPlayer" appears 5 times under Multimedia.

IT IS REFRESHINGLY FAST - so I do hope many readers will try it.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

Hi technosaurus,

Thank you for your explanations. I am happy with your pet as is, but I'll watch out for any update(s).

My regards

PS I have now installed your version 02 update now added in your post immediately above and thank you for fixing everything except, unimportantly, the Help and Shutdown items,

L18L · Posted: Wed 18 Apr 2012, 14:09 Post subject: simple application menu

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

yes, localization is still a work in progress ... still need to add the ":echo Desktop/System/etc..." parts to the translations too (the echo part needs to be the same as the english one - it is used in the submenu function ... I started localizing too early -oops)`

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

L18L · Posted: Thu 19 Apr 2012, 01:54 Post subject:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02763 ... was the post I was referring to re: xmessage and localization - I'd really prefer that we get X11 language support fixed if possible, rather than switching to a more resource hungry alternative

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

apparently it is possible to get x11 apps to display LANG=ru
http://www.gentoo.ru/node/17367
I think ... can't read russian to fully figure it out, but it appears we may need different fonts?

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Try the "unifont". It's 3MB unfortunately. But it has characters for pretty much every language. It just needs to be installed, not necessarily selected, and you should stop seeing those boxes that appear for unicode characters.

harii4 · Posted: Mon 16 Jul 2012, 23:23 Post subject:

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

Hi technosaurus et al.

Observation No 1

The screenshots below show my Graphics section of Simple Menu.

Originally, before any change

and

after adding the first $ to usr/bin/smenu > line 78