OpenBox tweaks and other

Question

I only have one simple question: How to customize the /Debian and the menu design in openbox.

This link here shows an Openbox menu that has a black title in it. How do I do that?

And the /Debian thing, is missing too many applications like Web Browser and doesn't even have icons. How can I make it update, and seperate the directories in /Debian out like CrunchBang?

Answer 1

All you need to add to your menu.xml is something like

<separator label="Openbox 3"/> 

This produces a separator with the label (or title) Openbox 3. If you just have:

<separator/>

you'll get a simple line between items. For example, if you do this:

<item label="term">
  <!-- stuff goes here -->
</item>
<separator label="Applications"/>
<item label="emacs">
  <!-- stuff goes here -->
</item>
<separator/>
<item label="www">
  <!-- stuff goes here -->
</item>

Your Openbox menu will have an Applications-labelled separator between the items term and emacs, followed by a thin line separating emacs from www.

Of course, there's a lot more to the specification, but adding labelled separators is quite easy.

Answer 2

Changing the color of the openbox menu can be done with the program openbox configuration manager or obconf from the command line. Lubuntu comes with several different themes preinstalled. To choose that particular theme for the color of the menu looks like oynx-Citrus. If you wish to add an external theme like one you downloaded from boxlook.org you can click the install new theme and point it at the .obt archive. If you have lxappearnce and lxappearnce-obconf the window border tab also lets you have the same functionality just in a different application.

The content and the items in the menu are actually stored in an xml file. The full specification is found at http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Menus. If you want a GUI application to make your own custom menus I suggest the obmenu package. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/en/man1/obmenu.1.html