Openbox:Pipemenus

Revision as of 04:50, 4 March 2018

Example of a pipe menu in action.

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
gtk-bookmarks	Bash	Simple bash script to create a pipe menu from ~/.gtk-bookmarks by Mulberry
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	POSIX sh	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.

Multimedia & Games

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

Personalisation

Script	Implementation	Description
ob3_theme	C	Openbox 3 theme changer by Mike Hokenson
ob3_wall	C	Openbox 3 desktop wallpaper changer by Mike Hokenson
show_ob_keybindings	Python	View/edit keybindings by Joe Bloggs
bmenu-1.0	Python	A pipe menu which uses Feh to select the wallpaper from the chosen directory by Mulberry

System Integration

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	POSIX sh	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.
processes	Python	Reads out info from /proc and pipes it to a menu. Renice, kill or restart apps through the menu. Has a filter, so not all apps/daemons are shown in the menu. By Vlad George.
mntmenu	Perl	Pipe menu that parses /etc/fstab for user mountable filesystems and allows the user to mount them. By Matthew Fitzgibbons.
ob-randr	Python	Easily change resolution, rotation, scaling, panning, and other xrandr operations as well as quickly see the capabilities of connected displays.
obfilebrowser	Python	display files and directories and generates submenus with commands to open files with their associated applications. By Xyne

Miscellaneous

Internet

Script	Implementation	Description
Chromium bookmarks	Perl	Create a pipemenu of chromium/google-chrome bookmarks by Spoiledbroth
Firefox bookmarks	Python	Create a pipemenu of Firefox bookmarks by Manuel Colmenero.
feeder	Python	A script to pipe RSS and Podcast feeds into the Openbox menu by Vlad George
Weather Pipe Menu	Python	Shows the weather forecast of the city passed as argument.

Utilities

Script	Implementation	Description
clipboard_menu	Python	Menu of recently copied text clips, selecting an item pastes it (requires parcellite or clipit) by Joe Bloggs
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.

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-Pipe menus are generated at run time (on-the-fly) based on output of scripts. These are also called "dynamic menus". A number of scripts used to generate dynamic menus written by various people are available here. Please note these scripts have not been reviewed.
+[[File:Ob-chromium-scrot.png|thumb|320px|right|Example of a pipe menu in action.]]
+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 [[Help:Menus#Dynamic_menus|menu documentation]] for how to use pipe menus in your Openbox menus.
+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 11: @@
 |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 47: / Line 41: @@
 |width="10%" valign="middle"|'''Implementation'''
 |width="*%" valign="middle"|'''Description'''
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:gtk-bookmarks|gtk-bookmarks]]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+Bash
+|valign="middle"|
+''Simple bash script to create a pipe menu from ~/.gtk-bookmarks by Mulberry''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
@@ Line 65: / Line 66: @@
 '''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:recentfilesxbel|recentfilesxbel]]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Bash
+POSIX sh
 |valign="middle"|
 ''Shows your recent documents using the newer xbel format. by [[User:davidbarr|davidbarr]]''
@@ Line 75: / Line 76: @@
 |valign="middle"|
 ''Pipes the rox-filer bookmarks from ~/.config/rox..../bookmarks.xml into the Openbox menu. Running one opens the bookmark in rox-filer.''
-|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
-|valign="middle"|
-'''[https://github.com/vapniks/ob-pipe-menus/tree/master/clipboard_manager clipboard_menu]'''
-|valign="middle"|
-Python
-|valign="middle"|
-''Menu of recently copied text clips, selecting an item pastes it (requires parcellite or clipit) by Joe Bloggs''
 |}
+== Multimedia & Games ==
-== XDG Application Menus ==
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 93: / Line 86: @@
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[https://launchpad.net/openbox-xdgmenu/+download openbox-xdgmenu]'''
+'''[https://github.com/Eli2/xmms2-OpenboxMenu xmms2-OpenboxMenu]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-C
+Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''Create an XDG menu''
+''xmms2 Pipe menu client''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:obam|Openbox Application Menu]]'''
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:AudaciousControl|Audacious Control]]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+Bash
+|valign="middle"|
+''Controls Audacious from a pipe menu by Matsuda Shinpei''
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:Audacious_control_alternative|Audacious Control (alternative)]] '''
 |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.''
+''A menu to control Audacious. Uses a builtin client for Audacious and depends on wmctrl. By [[User:AaylaSecura|AaylaSecura]]''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[http://rmoe.anukis.de/obamenu.html obamenu]'''
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:MPD_control|MPD/MPC Control]]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Python
+Perl
 |valign="middle"|
-''Automagically creates Openbox application menus by analyzing xdg information provided by desktop files.''
+''Control MPD/MPC from a pipe menu. Depends on MPC and one of gtkdialog/matedialog/zenity. By [[User:AaylaSecura|AaylaSecura]]''
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[http://www.gozer.org/programs/c/files/my_q3stat.c my_q3stat]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+C
+|valign="middle"|
+''A script to query Quake 3 servers by Mike Hokenson''
 |}
-== Browser Integration ==
+==Personalisation==
+<span id="Background_Management"></span>
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 121: / Line 129: @@
 |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"|
-'''[[User:Spoiledbroth/ob-chromium|Chromium bookmarks]]'''
+'''[http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/c/ob3_theme.c ob3_theme]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Perl
+C
 |valign="middle"|
-''Create a pipemenu of chromium/google-chrome bookmarks by [[User:Spoiledbroth|Spoiledbroth]]''
+''Openbox 3 theme changer by Mike Hokenson''
+<!-- END OF EXAMPLE -->
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[http://www.gozer.org/programs/c/c/ob3_wall.c ob3_wall]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+C
+|valign="middle"|
+''Openbox 3 desktop wallpaper changer by Mike Hokenson''
+|- 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:bmenu-1.0|bmenu-1.0]]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+Python
+|valign="middle"|
+''A pipe menu which uses Feh to select the wallpaper from the chosen directory by Mulberry''
 |}
+== System Integration ==
-== System Information ==
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 155: / Line 182: @@
 '''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:Date_Menu|date-menu]]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Bash
+POSIX sh
 |valign="middle"|
 ''A simple date, time, and calendar.''
@@ Line 179: / Line 206: @@
 |valign="middle"|
 ''Pipe menu for recursive directory listings.''
-|}
-== Sound & Media ==
-{| 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"|
-'''[https://github.com/Eli2/xmms2-OpenboxMenu xmms2-OpenboxMenu]'''
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:processes-python|processes]]'''
 |valign="middle"|
 Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''xmms2 Pipe menu client''
+''Reads out info from /proc and pipes it to a menu. Renice, kill or restart apps through the menu. Has a filter, so not all apps/daemons are shown in the menu. By Vlad George.''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:AudaciousControl|Audacious Control]]'''
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:mntmenu|mntmenu]]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Bash
+Perl
 |valign="middle"|
-''Controls Audacious from a pipe menu by Matsuda Shinpei''
+''Pipe menu that parses /etc/fstab for user mountable filesystems and allows the user to mount them. By Matthew Fitzgibbons.''
 |- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
 |valign="middle"|
-'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:Audacious_control_alternative|Audacious Control (alternative)]] '''
+'''[https://github.com/whiteinge/ob-randr ob-randr]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Perl
+Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''A menu to control Audacious. Uses a builtin client for Audacious and depends on wmctrl. By [[User:AaylaSecura|AaylaSecura]]''
+''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"|
-'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:MPD_control|MPD/MPC Control]]'''
+'''[https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/obfilebrowser/ obfilebrowser]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-Perl
+Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''Control MPD/MPC from a pipe menu. Depends on MPC and one of gtkdialog/matedialog/zenity. By [[User:AaylaSecura|AaylaSecura]]''
+''display files and directories and generates submenus with commands to open files with their associated applications. By Xyne''
 |}
+== Miscellaneous ==
-== Games ==
+=== Internet ===
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 225: / Line 243: @@
 |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/programs/c/files/my_q3stat.c my_q3stat]'''
+'''[[User:Spoiledbroth/ob-chromium|Chromium bookmarks]]'''
 |valign="middle"|
-C
+Perl
 |valign="middle"|
-''A script to query Quake 3 servers by Mike Hokenson''
+''Create a pipemenu of chromium/google-chrome bookmarks by [[User:Spoiledbroth|Spoiledbroth]]''
-<!-- END OF EXAMPLE -->
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:obm-mozilla|Firefox bookmarks]]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+Python
+|valign="middle"|
+''Create a pipemenu of Firefox bookmarks by Manuel Colmenero.''
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[[Openbox:Pipemenus:feeder-python|feeder]]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+Python
+|valign="middle"|
+''A script to pipe RSS and Podcast feeds into the Openbox menu by Vlad George''
+|- style="background: #eee; padding: 1px;"
+|valign="middle"|
+'''[https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43432 Weather Pipe Menu]'''
+|valign="middle"|
+Python
+|valign="middle"|
+''Shows the weather forecast of the city passed as argument.''
 |}
-== Miscellaneous ==
+=== Utilities ===
 {| border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" align="left"
 |- style="padding: 1px;"
@@ Line 243: / Line 280: @@
 |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]'''
+'''[https://github.com/vapniks/ob-pipe-menus/tree/master/clipboard_manager clipboard_menu]'''
 |valign="middle"|
 Python
 |valign="middle"|
-''Shows the weather forecast of the city passed as argument.''
+''Menu of recently copied text clips, selecting an item pastes it (requires parcellite or clipit) by Joe Bloggs''
-<!-- 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"|
@@ Line 269: / Line 297: @@
-== Script Archives & Collections ==
+== Script collections ==
 * [[User:Baavgai]]
 * [[User:Spoiledbroth]]
-=== External collections ===
-* [http://zhar.net/projects/openbox/ John Eikenberry's Openbox Stuff]
-* [http://obmenu.sourceforge.net/ Manuel Colmenero's Openbox Menu Editor] This contains several menus, including an XDG menu, a Firefox bookmark menu, and others.
+=== External links ===
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox#Pipes ArchWiki Openbox Pipes]
+* [https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?action=search&keywords=openbox+pipe+menu&author=&forums=27&search_in=0&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_as=topics Arch Linux Forums pipe menus]
+* [http://zhar.net/projects/openbox/ zhar.net Openbox stuff]
+* [http://web.archive.org/web/20150215210422/http://david.chalkskeletons.com/scripts/ Mulberry's Openbox Pipe menu scripts]
+* [http://obmenu.sourceforge.net/ Manuel Colmenero's Openbox Menu Editor]
+* [https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-pipemenus BunsenLabs Pipe menus repository]
+* [https://github.com/antonio-malcolm/corgi-scripts Antonio Malcolm's Corgi Scripts repository]
+* [http://dev.yeuxdelibad.net/coolrepo/Scripts/Openbox/ yeuxdelibad.net Openbox repo]
+* [http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87588 Nathan F's obpipes]