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Hi everyone!
I'm using Salix 15 Xfce, and installed Fluxbox 1.37 using Gslapt, and fbmenugen 0.88 using sbopkg, with all dependencies (perl-data-dump perl-linux-desktop-files perl-gtk2 perl-Gtk3 perl-file-desktopentry). But when I run in a terminal the command to generate a menu with icons:

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$ fbmenugen -i

it returns the error:

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:: Regenerating the cache DB...
Required key missing in Desktop Entry: Name at /usr/bin/fbmenugen line 526.
Required key missing in Desktop Entry: Type at /usr/bin/fbmenugen line 526.
Too late to run INIT block at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Glib/Object/Introspection.pm line 257.
:: A new menu has been successfully generated!

And the menu is generated without icons.

So, I looked in the fbmenugen code (as seen here https://gitlab.com/trizen/fbmenugen/-/b ... type=heads), but I can't figure what is wrong, since I don't know perl language.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance!

I don't know about fbmenugen, but you can try xdgmenumaker.

Hi everyone sorry to necrobump this topic, but I find some information in the topic.

The fbmenugen script really creates the icons (sorry by the error above) and place them in /home/user/.cache/fbmenugen/icons/ and modifies the file /home/user/.fluxbox/start with the correct path to the icons:

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## Menu generated with fbmenugen v0.88
#

[begin] (Fluxbox)
[encoding] {UTF-8}
  [exec] (Arqchive Manager) {xdg-open .} </home/user/.cache/fbmenugen/icons/b07c7ed44e52bbbb7f9e38497d7592f2.png>
  [exec] (Terminal) {xfce4-terminal} </home/user/.cache/fbmenugen/icons/207bae381b410cc058ab6fcc2b5bc748.png>
  [exec] (Web Browser) {xdg-open http://} </home/user/.cache/fbmenugen/icons/544e6bed20e3f9b198b4fea436b20c1d.png>
  ...

and so on.

But the Fluxbox windows menu and submenus don't show the icons. Don't know why.

There is also a folder with .xpm icons in /home/user/.fluxbox/icons/ but it doesn't show them.

I tried the option in Advanced Settings -> Fluxbox -> Configure -> Tabs Options -> Show Images but it doesn't work.

So anyone can give any hint in the problem? I'm thinking that the problem is an option in fluxbox that I don't know.

Thanks in advance!

1. Default fluxbox package in slackware show only xpm icons in menus.
run this script convert-to-xpm.sh in user home to convert png icons in ~/.cache/fbmenugen/icons/ to xpm

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#/bin/bash
FILES=~/.cache/fbmenugen/icons/*
for f in $FILES
do
icon=${f%.*}
echo $icon
convert $icon.png $icon.xpm
done
sed -i "s/png/xpm/g"  ~.fluxbox/menu
echo "Done..."

2. To use png icons in menus compile fluxbox with --enable-imlib2
Download all from here
Edit fluxbox.SlackBuild and add --enable-imlib2 \

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CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
./configure \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --mandir=/usr/man \
  --docdir=/usr/doc/fluxbox-$VERSION \
  --enable-imlib2 \ 
  --enable-xinerama \
  --enable-slit \
  --enable-nls \
  --enable-timedcache \
  --enable-xext \
  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux

Build the package with fakeroot sh fluxbox.SlackBuild
and reinstall the package

or download the compiled fluxbox package with imlib2 from here

Thanks for your reply djemos.

The problem is that fluxbox doesn't show .png icons generated by fbmenugen
Following your suggestion, I recompiled fluxbox with the imlib2 parameter (as you sugested), and now fluxbox show the icons.

The same problem is listed here viewtopic.php?t=6269&sid=126d4d3825f20c ... 9&start=10.

Anyway, I will mark this thread as solved.

Thanks for everyone and sorry for the delay in the answer.

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