> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:58:40 -0300 > From: Fernando de Oliveira <[email protected]> > To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Suggestions on Desktop Environment > . . > I could go with any WM, without a DE, but dislike having to manually > edit the menus. Openbox is very good, with lxpanel, no need to edit > menus. unfortunately, the developers of LXDE have conceived lxpanel so
Surely you'd script/program that; parse a simple spec of what you want on the menus, and auto-gen/install the required-format menu(s); the lighter the WM, often the simpler the structure required. I agree, I'd _reaLLY* dislike 'having' to edit menus manually. > that it needs to be reloaded after some applications do some operations > and closes, so lxpanel unloads in Openbox, I created an entry in OB to > reload it, got tired, and this made me to switch back to LXDE, because > the applications in autostart that are preceeded by a "@" reloads if > closed by any motive, so we have as default @lxpanel in autostart. > That's also quite easy to implem in a generic fashion: essentially see if pid is active, if yes then raise/lower/iconify/un-iconify, else start instance of prog and store pid. Use essentially, broadly, that under twm. The 'most difficult' part in many WM/DE would be to reverse-engineer them to see how to hook it in yrself. akh > -- > []s, > Fernando > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
