Openbox:Pipemenus

Revision as of 20:47, 27 February 2018

Pipe menus are generated at run time (on-the-fly) based on output of scripts. These are also called "dynamic menus," and are often used to provide added functionality to Openbox or integration with other software on the system. A number of scripts for generating pipe menus have been collected on this page. Please note many of these scripts have not been reviewed, and were not written by people directly involved with the project.

See the menu documentation for how to use pipe menus in your Openbox installation.

Application Menus

Script	Implementation	Description
openbox-xdgmenu	C	Create an XDG menu
Openbox Application Menu	Perl	Reads .desktop files from multiple directories to construct a flat menu. Useful if your system doesn't have working XDG or Debian menus.
obamenu	Python	Automagically creates Openbox application menus by analyzing xdg information provided by desktop files.

Desktop Environment Integration

Script	Implementation	Description
thunar-bookmarks	Perl	A pipe menu that duplicates ~/.gtk-bookmarks (Nautilus, PCManFM, Thunar), by dbbolton
dolphin-bookmarks	Perl	A pipe menu that duplicates user-places.xbel (Dolphin, etc) by dbbolton
recentfilesxbel	Bash	Shows your recent documents using the newer xbel format. by davidbarr
rox-filer bookmarks	Python	Pipes the rox-filer bookmarks from ~/.config/rox..../bookmarks.xml into the Openbox menu. Running one opens the bookmark in rox-filer.
clipboard_menu	Python	Menu of recently copied text clips, selecting an item pastes it (requires parcellite or clipit) by Joe Bloggs

Personalisation

Script	Implementation	Description
ob3_theme	C	Openbox 3 theme changer by Mike Hokenson
show_ob_keybindings	Python	View/edit keybindings by Joe Bloggs
ob3_wall	C	Openbox 3 desktop wallpaper changer by Mike Hokenson
Weather Pipe Menu	Python	Shows the weather forecast of the city passed as argument.
Palobo's Openbox SimpleTasks Tasklist	Python	A simple task list in the form of a pipe menu. Simple features are supported for the time being. Adding tasks. Clicking on a task renders it completed and is therefore removed from the list.

System Information

Script	Implementation	Description
ob-cpufreq-0.2	Python	See your CPU frequency by John McKnight
ob-sysinfo	Perl	A similar system information script written in Perl and easy to modify/extend by dbbolton
date-menu	Bash	A simple date, time, and calendar.
Reboot Menu	Perl	Allows you to reboot to the any of the options in your grub.conf.
battery	Bash	A simple script to show acpi settings battery and temperature.
Directory Menu	Perl	Pipe menu for recursive directory listings.

Multimedia & Graphics

Script	Implementation	Description
ob-randr	Python	Easily change resolution, rotation, scaling, panning, and other xrandr operations as well as quickly see the capabilities of connected displays.
xmms2-OpenboxMenu	Python	xmms2 Pipe menu client
Audacious Control	Bash	Controls Audacious from a pipe menu by Matsuda Shinpei
Audacious Control (alternative)	Perl	A menu to control Audacious. Uses a builtin client for Audacious and depends on wmctrl. By AaylaSecura
MPD/MPC Control	Perl	Control MPD/MPC from a pipe menu. Depends on MPC and one of gtkdialog/matedialog/zenity. By AaylaSecura

Miscellaneous

Games

Script	Implementation	Description
my_q3stat	C	A script to query Quake 3 servers by Mike Hokenson

Browser Integration

Script	Implementation	Description
Chromium bookmarks	Perl	Create a pipemenu of chromium/google-chrome bookmarks by Spoiledbroth

Script collections

External links

zhar.net Openbox stuff
- A collection of pipe menus by John Eikenberry.
Manuel Colmenero's Openbox Menu Editor
- This contains several menus, including an XDG menu, a Firefox bookmark menu, and others.
BunsenLabs Pipe menus repository
- Several pipe menus: ssh_config, compositor handling, gfx settings and more. Requires some reworking as they contain refs to BunsenLabs' configs etc.
Antonio Malcolm's Corgi Scripts repository
- A library of shell scripts, functions, & Openbox pipe menus (includes menus for samba, audio, display, network & power management).
yeuxdelibad.net Openbox repo
- A repository of french-language pipe menus, discussed here.
Nathan F's obpipes
- A tar of three pipe menus (wallpaper, places, mpd control) by Nathan F.

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 See the [[Help:Menus#Pipe_menus|menu documentation]] for how to use pipe menus in your Openbox installation.
-==Openbox Configuration==
+== Application Menus ==
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 9: / Line 10: @@
 |width="10%" valign="middle"|'''Implementation'''
 |width="*%" valign="middle"|'''Description'''
-<!-- here is an example entry for a pipemenu. please maintain the style -->
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/c/ob3_theme.c ob3_theme]'''
+'''[https://launchpad.net/openbox-xdgmenu/+download openbox-xdgmenu]'''
 |valign="middle"|
 C
 |valign="middle"|
-''Openbox 3 theme changer by Mike Hokenson''
+''Create an XDG menu''
-<!-- END OF EXAMPLE -->
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
-|valign="middle"|'''[https://github.com/vapniks/ob-pipe-menus show_ob_keybindings]'''
+|valign="middle"|
-|valign="middle"|Python
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:obam|Openbox Application Menu]]'''
-|valign="middle"|''View/edit keybindings by Joe Bloggs''
+|valign="middle"|
-|}
+Perl
+|valign="middle"|
+''Reads .desktop files from multiple directories to construct a flat menu. Useful if your system doesn't have working XDG or Debian menus.''
-== Background Management ==
-{| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
-|- style="padding: 1px;"
-|width="25%" valign="middle"|'''Script'''
-|width="10%" valign="middle"|'''Implementation'''
-|width="*%" valign="middle"|'''Description'''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[http://www.gozer.org/programs/c/c/ob3_wall.c ob3_wall]'''
+'''[http://rmoe.anukis.de/obamenu.html obamenu]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-C
+Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''Openbox 3 desktop wallpaper changer by Mike Hokenson''
+''Automagically creates Openbox application menus by analyzing xdg information provided by desktop files.''
 |}
@@ Line 85: / Line 78: @@
-== XDG Application Menus ==
+==Personalisation==
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 91: / Line 84: @@
 |width="10%" valign="middle"|'''Implementation'''
 |width="*%" valign="middle"|'''Description'''
+<!-- here is an example entry for a pipemenu. please maintain the style -->
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[https://launchpad.net/openbox-xdgmenu/+download openbox-xdgmenu]'''
+'''[http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/c/ob3_theme.c ob3_theme]'''
 |valign="middle"|
 C
 |valign="middle"|
-''Create an XDG menu''
+''Openbox 3 theme changer by Mike Hokenson''
+<!-- END OF EXAMPLE -->
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|'''[https://github.com/vapniks/ob-pipe-menus show_ob_keybindings]'''
+|valign="middle"|Python
+|valign="middle"|''View/edit keybindings by Joe Bloggs''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:obam|Openbox Application Menu]]'''
+'''[http://www.gozer.org/programs/c/c/ob3_wall.c ob3_wall]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Perl
+C
 |valign="middle"|
-''Reads .desktop files from multiple directories to construct a flat menu. Useful if your system doesn't have working XDG or Debian menus.''
+''Openbox 3 desktop wallpaper changer by Mike Hokenson''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[http://rmoe.anukis.de/obamenu.html obamenu]'''
+'''[https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43432 Weather Pipe Menu]'''
 |valign="middle"|
 Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''Automagically creates Openbox application menus by analyzing xdg information provided by desktop files.''
+''Shows the weather forecast of the city passed as argument.''
-|}
-== Browser Integration ==
-{| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
-|- style="padding: 1px;"
-|width="25%" valign="middle"|'''Script'''
-|width="10%" valign="middle"|'''Implementation'''
-|width="*%" valign="middle"|'''Description'''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[[User:Spoiledbroth/ob-chromium|Chromium bookmarks]]'''
+'''[http://bitbucket.org/palobo/simpletasks/ Palobo's Openbox SimpleTasks Tasklist]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Perl
+Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''Create a pipemenu of chromium/google-chrome bookmarks by [[User:Spoiledbroth|Spoiledbroth]]''
+''A simple task list in the form of a pipe menu. Simple features are supported for the time being. Adding tasks. Clicking on a task renders it completed and is therefore removed from the list.''
 |}
@@ Line 182: / Line 172: @@
-== Sound & Media ==
+== Multimedia & Graphics ==
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 188: / Line 178: @@
 |width="10%" valign="middle"|'''Implementation'''
 |width="*%" valign="middle"|'''Description'''
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[https://github.com/whiteinge/ob-randr ob-randr]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+Python
+|valign="middle"|
+''Easily change resolution, rotation, scaling, panning, and other xrandr operations as well as quickly see the capabilities of connected displays.''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
@@ Line 219: / Line 216: @@
-== Games ==
+== Miscellaneous ==
+=== Games ===
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 235: / Line 233: @@
 <!-- END OF EXAMPLE -->
 |}
+=== Browser Integration ===
-== Miscellaneous ==
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 243: / Line 239: @@
 |width="10%" valign="middle"|'''Implementation'''
 |width="*%" valign="middle"|'''Description'''
-<!-- here is an example entry for a pipemenu. please maintain the style -->
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43432 Weather Pipe Menu]'''
+'''[[User:Spoiledbroth/ob-chromium|Chromium bookmarks]]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Python
+Perl
 |valign="middle"|
-''Shows the weather forecast of the city passed as argument.''
+''Create a pipemenu of chromium/google-chrome bookmarks by [[User:Spoiledbroth|Spoiledbroth]]''
-<!-- END OF EXAMPLE -->
-|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
-|valign="middle"|
-'''[https://github.com/whiteinge/ob-randr ob-randr]'''
-|valign="middle"|
-Python
-|valign="middle"|
-''Easily change resolution, rotation, scaling, panning, and other xrandr operations as well as quickly see the capabilities of connected displays.''
-|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
-|valign="middle"|
-'''[http://bitbucket.org/palobo/simpletasks/ Palobo's Openbox SimpleTasks Tasklist]'''
-|valign="middle"|
-Python
-|valign="middle"|
-''A simple task list in the form of a pipe menu. Simple features are supported for the time being. Adding tasks. Clicking on a task renders it completed and is therefore removed from the list.''
 |}

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