--- title: "Openbox Challenge - Day 5" url: https://perrotta.dev/2013/10/openbox-challenge-day-5/ last_updated: 2026-02-18 --- [Previously]({{< ref "2013-10-30-openbox-challenge-day-4" >}}). Today I removed obmenu-generator and installed archlinux-xdg-menu instead. This one is so much better! Less bloated and more relevant. Its Arch Wiki page says better than me. Quick command: ```bash xdg_menu --format openbox3 --root-menu /etc/xdg/menus/arch-applications.menu >xdg-menu.xml ``` You can either choose to add it to the entire openbox menu (= replace the current openbox menu) or add it as a menu entry to openbox. I chose the last one, so I added ```xml ``` to my custom_menu.xml and put it in my menu.xml too. It supports icons, out-of-the-box, and looks like the xfce menu (for example). Now, if I ever need to update this menu again, I'll have to run my mmaker template and then add custom_menu.xml to menu.xml. Now I'm done with menus. I'll only have to add my favorite applications to custom_menu.xml. But this is not much essential because I usually launch them with synapse. I think the purpose of the menu is to give a quick overview of which applications are installed under the system; but not to launch them. It takes time; and time costs. (Actually, maybe I'll find some interesting pipe menus later. But I'll not cover them here, probably.) ## Windows 7 Snap feature I've also enabled the Windows 7 Snap feature. Read the Arch Wiki. It is *much* cool. You'll have to edit rc.xml to do this. I've also tried opensnap, but I couldn't get it working (I'm trying these programs in a hurry, I can't try to debug or bug report them right now. Probably I'll try them again later. When I can't make things work at the first try, usually I manage to do it a few days later.). --- ## Note about post length I usually write larger posts. Explained as much as possible. But I think I won't apply this principle to the *challenges* section anymore, because it should act more like a diary than a tutorial (and because I can't spend much time here). Yeah, as you can see, my first 3 posts (days) are kind of a tutorial. But I won't do this tutorial thing anymore. This is good news for more advanced users (I suppose), but maybe won't be much good for learners/newbies. But hey, I'm a newbie (too) in this openbox thing now, so we'll learn together. Just try to google my terms, I always try to be precise and name the applications as much detailed as possible. Thank you for reading.