Openbox:Pipemenus
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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," 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.
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Application Menus
Script | Implementation | Description |
C |
Create an XDG 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. | |
Python |
Automagically creates Openbox application menus by analyzing xdg information provided by desktop files. |
Desktop Environment Integration
Script | Implementation | Description |
Bash |
Simple bash script to create a pipe menu from ~/.gtk-bookmarks by Mulberry | |
Perl |
A pipe menu that duplicates ~/.gtk-bookmarks (Nautilus, PCManFM, Thunar), by dbbolton | |
Perl |
A pipe menu that duplicates user-places.xbel (Dolphin, etc) by dbbolton | |
Bash |
Shows your recent documents using the newer xbel format. by davidbarr | |
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 |
Python |
xmms2 Pipe menu client | |
Bash |
Controls Audacious from a pipe menu by Matsuda Shinpei | |
Perl |
A menu to control Audacious. Uses a builtin client for Audacious and depends on wmctrl. By AaylaSecura | |
Perl |
Control MPD/MPC from a pipe menu. Depends on MPC and one of gtkdialog/matedialog/zenity. By AaylaSecura | |
C |
A script to query Quake 3 servers by Mike Hokenson |
Personalisation
Script | Implementation | Description |
C |
Openbox 3 theme changer by Mike Hokenson | |
C |
Openbox 3 desktop wallpaper changer by Mike Hokenson | |
show_ob_keybindings | Python | View/edit keybindings by Joe Bloggs |
Python |
A pipe menu which uses Feh to select the wallpaper from the chosen directory by Mulberry |
System Integration
Script | Implementation | Description |
Python |
See your CPU frequency by John McKnight | |
Perl |
A similar system information script written in Perl and easy to modify/extend by dbbolton | |
Bash |
A simple date, time, and calendar. | |
Perl |
Allows you to reboot to the any of the options in your grub.conf. | |
Bash |
A simple script to show acpi settings battery and temperature. | |
Perl |
Pipe menu for recursive directory listings. | |
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. | |
Perl |
Pipe menu that parses /etc/fstab for user mountable filesystems and allows the user to mount them. By Matthew Fitzgibbons. | |
Python |
Easily change resolution, rotation, scaling, panning, and other xrandr operations as well as quickly see the capabilities of connected displays. |
Miscellaneous
Internet
Script | Implementation | Description |
Perl |
Create a pipemenu of chromium/google-chrome bookmarks by Spoiledbroth | |
Python |
Create a pipemenu of Firefox bookmarks by Manuel Colmenero. | |
Python |
A script to pipe RSS and Podcast feeds into the Openbox menu by Vlad George | |
Python |
Shows the weather forecast of the city passed as argument. |
Utilities
Script | Implementation | Description |
Python |
Menu of recently copied text clips, selecting an item pastes it (requires parcellite or clipit) by Joe Bloggs | |
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. |
Script collections
External links
- ArchWiki Openbox Pipes
- Some links to pipe menus in the Arch User Repo
- Arch Linux Forums pipe menus
- Hyperlink to a search on the Arch Linux Forums for "openbox pipe menu"
- zhar.net Openbox stuff
- A collection of pipe menus by John Eikenberry.
- Mulberry's Openbox Pipe menu scripts
- A repository of pipe menus which originally appeared on this page around 2012.
- 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.