Package Details: openbox-menu 0.8.0-3

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/openbox-menu.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: openbox-menu
Description: Dynamic XDG menu for openbox
Upstream URL: http://fabrice.thiroux.free.fr/openbox-menu_en.html
Licenses: GPL3
Submitter: kyak
Maintainer: showipatlogon
Last Packager: showipatlogon
Votes: 10
Popularity: 0.045484
First Submitted: 2015-08-11 14:40 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-04-02 17:28 (UTC)

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showipatlogon commented on 2024-06-21 22:31 (UTC) (edited on 2024-06-21 22:43 (UTC) by showipatlogon)

Hi Calimero,

The reason for the dependency on lxterminal is due to the openbox-menu.patch and menu.patch files, which modify how terminal applications are opened by Openbox-menu. The original code uses xterm, but it has been replaced by lxterminal.

If you prefer not to use lxterminal, you can modify the PKGBUILD file as follows:

1. Remove those lines:

patch src/menu.c < ../menu.patch
patch src/openbox-menu.h < ../openbox-menu.patch|


2. Replace lxterminal with xterm in the dependencies:

depends=('gtk3' 'menu-cache' 'xterm')


This will revert to using xterm as originally intended.

Thanks!

Calimero commented on 2024-06-21 19:50 (UTC)

Excuse me, but why exactly is there a dependency on lxterminal now?

showipatlogon commented on 2024-01-23 21:36 (UTC)

Hi @ostrodamus. A bit late, but did modified the git URL to the official page. Thx !

showipatlogon commented on 2023-04-06 12:52 (UTC)

Ah, good to know. I will check this out soon.

0strodamus commented on 2023-04-06 02:53 (UTC)

As of 2023, the releases are available on github. For example, https://github.com/fabriceT/openbox-menu/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.0.tar.gz.

showipatlogon commented on 2021-01-18 14:44 (UTC) (edited on 2021-01-18 14:55 (UTC) by showipatlogon)

I was able to find a version that compiles online. Uploaded it to SourceForge and modified the PKGFILE to use it. Now working fine for those of us who still wants to use it. I'll maintain it since kyak (original submitter) decided to switch to obmenu-generator and disowned this package for good (see comments below).

<deleted-account> commented on 2021-01-06 13:39 (UTC)

words of the author about the project https://github.com/fabriceT/openbox-menu/pull/1#issuecomment-755218592

kyak commented on 2021-01-02 09:35 (UTC)

openbox-menu project is abandoned by its author. He moved to github from bitbucket, but didn't move releases/tags. So this package won't build anymore.

I've switched over to obmenu-generator and disowning this package for good.

RedSky commented on 2020-05-16 15:29 (UTC)

@kyak Thank you for your advice.

Since the whole project is 3 years after last update, I just tried to fix it by myself. Now I've commented the issue and show my workaround. I'll mail the author later if no reply in bitbucket.

kyak commented on 2020-05-16 09:21 (UTC)

@RedSky Thanks for your effort in patching this problem you are facing.

You should send the patch (or pull request) to upstream authors. This way, everyone will benefit from this change, and not just Arch Linux AUR users. Also, it will enable feedback and review from original author and more eyes. Moreover, Arch approach is to provide as much vanilla packages as possible and only patch when it is absolutely necessary.

Thus said, the patch should be forced upstream and not applied ad-hoc to this package.