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i_ri wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:05 pm hello siamhie
Thank You muchly for posting the screenshots
and for your involvement with mx.
With focus on color: that is outstanding colors!
seasonally fun too. for the haunting.
rootmenu grabbed my attention. questions about menu:
The All Apps menu: Settings submenu and after is non-standard full_menu; do You maintain rewrite that after every upgrade?
Do you key shortcut for "Run"ner?
I keep a similar custommenu all apps that requires maintenance, but it is an additional app-menu secondary to the standard full_menu that self-updates with upgrade.

#the default versions of the submenus are located in /usr/share/mxflux/menu

[begin] (Fluxbox)
		[submenu] (All Apps)
            [include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
   [end]
	[submenu] (Recent files) 
			[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/recent_files_menu)
			[separator]
			[exec] (Update list) {mxfb-recent-files}
		[end]
		[submenu] (Emby Server) 
			[exec] (Start) {systemctl start emby-server.service}
			[exec] (Stop)  {systemctl stop emby-server.service}
		[end]

configuration {

	modi: "drun,calc:qalc,window,run";
	width: 25;
	show-icons: true;
	icon-theme: "papirus";
	lines: 20;
	fake-transparency: true;
	sidebar-mode: true;
	
}


@import "/usr/share/rofi/themes/glue_pro_blue.rasi"

i_ri wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:01 pm Ah Yes aha. rofi run,drun runner.
Very nice siamhie.

This fly-out menu

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[submenu] (All Apps)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]

equals one-way ticket to menu.

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[CustomMenu] (All Apps) {~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps}

Make a small fly-out between fly-out menu.

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[submenu] (A All Apps) {A}
[submenu] () {A Apps}
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]
[end]

[submenu] () {A Apps}

i_ri wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:15 pm the referenced empty parenthensis is text label (name) of fly-out item on the A submenu. I said small, so (name) is blank; it can be an <icon> shown, is left blank in this example. size of intermediate fly-out is determined by length of longer text line in {} and () text name. name it z for keyboard shortcut z,+Enter to keyboard select menu z. example.
type siamhie inside those paren to see what happens. safely.
And. Why?
on the application launcher menu it is a menu button can be dragged off the menu to sit anywhere on the Desktop where you want an applications button. make a menu into one button.

on menu that has a huge fly-out menu (like System, style) it will be a tiny pop-out on rollover instead of the huge fly-out that is sometimes huge in-the-way. no need to have alarming huge pop-out on hover-rollover having instead mini fly-out buffer.

Put launch screenshot throughout your menu and each submenu everywhere do launch screenshot, capture, screencapture, quickshot, screenshooter, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot

on menu that has a huge fly-out menu (like System, style) it will be a tiny pop-out on rollover instead of the huge fly-out