Customizing the Openbox Menu

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2012-10-03

There are two ways you can make changes to the openbox menu. You can edit the menu.xml file, which is usually located with the other openbox configuration files (in ~/.config/openbox/ on Ubuntu 12.04).

There's an easier, GUI-based way -- using a program called obmenu. Once you have obmenu installed (sudo apt-get install obmenu), simply type obmenu in a terminal. A window like the one above will come up and allow you to change the menu that pops up with a right click on the openbox desktop.

You can find some pretty handy openbox menu.xml files on the Internet, also. I personally like the one that comes with a GNU/Linux distribution called crunchbang: Default #!crunchbang openbox menu.xml