On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 12:20 +1000, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
>
>
> > On 18 Aug 2022, at 02:52, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> >
> > My experience with LXDE and Openbox is that the system menu is pretty much given
> > to
> > you on LXDE/Openbox install. My experience based on LXDE and Openbox on Ubuntu,
> > Debian and Void is that installing a package doesn't put the package's
> > executable in
> > the LXDE or Openbox system menu. This is why I use dmenu as my main menu. Dmenu
> > is
> > faster and requires no mouse.
> >
> > SteveT
>
> Can dmenu search and run applications from .desktop files like the xfce4-
> appfinder, or does it just search through executables in bin/ directories? I’ve
> been looking for an xfce4-appfinder replacement without dbus dependency.
>
> Tom

If all your .desktop files are in the same directory, you could write a simple
companion shellscript to list them, allow you to select one, and run it.

As far as dbus, at 14 I walked a mile to dbus in order to go to dschool.

SteveT