Configuring Your Own Fluxbox Menus

So I wanted to add “k9copy” to the fluxbox right click menu. In order to do this copy it from it’s home and replace your user menu.
cp /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu /home/username/.fluxbox/menu

Edit the file
vi /home/username/.fluxbox/menu

where it says something like

[submenu] (Tools) {}
[exec] (fluxconf) {/usr/bin/fluxconf} <>
[exec] (fluxkeys) {/usr/bin/fluxkeys} <>
[exec] (fluxmenu) {/usr/bin/fluxmenu} <>
[exec] (k3b) {/usr/bin/k3b}
[exec] (k9copy) {/usr/bin/k9copy} <> #add this in right here
[end]

Now try restarting and we’ll see if it works

I just restarted and it worked.
If it didn’t work there is one think that I might try.
vi /home/username/.fluxbox/init

change the session.menuFile path to ~/.fluxbox/menu
it should look like this
session.menuFile: ~/.fluxbox/menu

There probably no reason this wouldn’t work as long as the the command to start a program is just one word that is typed in to the command prompt, good luck.

~ by debconf on August 23, 2007.