Configuring fluxbox' menu through a comfortable graphical editor would be fine. I tried using fluxmenu which is part of fluxconf and it seemed to be exactly what I expected. Unfortunately, hitting the SAVE button after adding one or more menu items immediately crashes the fluxmenu window. Then the file ~/.fluxbox/menu is completely empty. Saving after deletion of any menu item is ok. I tried to get a stack trace and got the following: GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/fluxmenu Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7b5a3c8 in g_utf8_validate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7b5a3c8 in g_utf8_validate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge fluxconf 2. run fluxbox 3. start fluxmenu 4. add an entry e.g. "exec clock xclock" 5. hit the save button Actual Results: Fluxmenu crashes and all file size of ~/.fluxbox/menu becomes zero. Expected Results: Fluxmenu should have saved the new entries to menu. Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 4 2005, 13:04:55)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar caps cdparanoia cdr chroot cjk cpdflib crypt css cups curl directfb dvd emboss encode fam fb fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gd gdbm gif gpm graphviz gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jbig jpeg lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mdb mikmod mime mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png posix ppds profile python quicktime readline recode sapdb sdl session sftplogging simplexml spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xsl xslt xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
same here;/ Portage 2.1.2_rc4-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:30:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig digest distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/nelchael" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd flash fortran gif glitz gpm gtk hal iconv imagemegick imlib isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility libg++ mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre perl pertty pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 readline reflection risky sdl session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tga tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vorbis wmf x86 xcomposite xml xml2 xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse ps2mouse joystick vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vmware" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** Bug 151782 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Well, unfortunately fluxconf upstream is dead, and it is known that it doesn't work with anything in the fluxbox-1.0 series (All the config file formats have now changed enough that it just won't go). In fact, I thought that fluxconf was supposed to block the newer fluxbox ebuilds - It does now. The long and short of it is: fluxconf is dead. Your best configuration tool for fluxbox is your text editor. If someone wants to fork fluxconf, please do so! It was a nice tool when it worked.
(In reply to comment #3) > Well, unfortunately fluxconf upstream is dead, and it is known that it doesn't > work with anything in the fluxbox-1.0 series (All the config file formats have > now changed enough that it just won't go). In fact, I thought that fluxconf > was supposed to block the newer fluxbox ebuilds - It does now. > > The long and short of it is: fluxconf is dead. Your best configuration tool > for fluxbox is your text editor. > > If someone wants to fork fluxconf, please do so! It was a nice tool when it > worked. > Indeed, fluxconf was a great tool. Waiting a fork of fluxconf, it exists another editor for the fluxbox menu called Fluxbox Menu Editor (bug#184023) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184023 It would be great for this tool to be accepted in portage to maybe, one day, replace a part of fluxconf since this project is dead...
(In reply to comment #4) > Indeed, fluxconf was a great tool. > Waiting a fork of fluxconf, it exists another editor for the fluxbox menu > called Fluxbox Menu Editor (bug#184023) > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184023 > It would be great for this tool to be accepted in portage to maybe, one day, > replace a part of fluxconf since this project is dead... Thanks very much for this information, I was not aware of this program! I have become the maintainer of fme and have just added x11-misc/fme-1.0.3 to the tree. Enjoy!
Here's an another Fluxbox menu editor: http://fluxmenu.berlios.de/ I have used it since Fluxconf went belly up. Highly recommended!
