Standalone Openbox-menu program - what would I use to make that?

[Yes]

I'd like to make a standalone version of the Openbox menu, but I'm not sure what I would use to make it? Is there any library that you would use to draw like that, or what?

Thanks.

[urukrama]

I'm far from a programmer, but have a look at something like 9menu or deskmenu (or even dzen2) and see what it uses. Perhaps that will give you some ideas.

[shifty2]

You could even do it in gtk if you wanted. Maybe have a look at the openbox source - that may give you some ideas.

[Yes]

Well I know of one standalone menu that does it with GTK, but I think I would rather do it how 9menu does, which is just directly with X. Are there any tutorials out there for programming with X?

[LaRoza]

Are there any tutorials out there for programming with X?

http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/xlib/xlib.html

Google for more ;)

[Yes]

Heh, that's the one I've been using. Do I want Xlib tutorials, or is that something different?

[gotmor]

I'd like to make a standalone version of the Openbox menu, but I'm not sure what I would use to make it? Is there any library that you would use to draw like that, or what?

Thanks.

You could have look into this:
http://dzen.geekmode.org/dwikidoku.php?id=dzen:dz9menu

It interpretes 9menu input files but will aditionally let you use any dzen formating commads, e.g. coloring your menu entries, adding icons, drawing graphical separators, etc.

[urukrama]

You could have look into this:
http://dzen.geekmode.org/dwikidoku.php?id=dzen:dz9menu


Thank you for that link. Very interesting!


The link gives a 404, though. It should be this: http://dzen.geekmode.org/dwiki/doku.php?id=dzen:dz9menu