box-menu-rs is a pipemenu application following the openbox_menu syntax.
By this, it can be integrated into the menu of labwc, Openbox, and potentially other window manager following this syntax.
Currently, box-menu-rs is only tested on Linux but might run also on other platforms as well.
Build box-menu-rs using cargo.
Quick & dirty assuming you have rust installed on your system.
git clone https://github.com/RainerKuemmerle/box-menu-rs.git
cd box-menu-rs
cargo install --path .
After this you can integrate into your menu.xml, e.g., $HOME/.config/labwc/menu.xml.
Below the menu.xml corresponding to the screenshot.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openbox_menu>
<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
<item label="Terminal emulator" icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/kitty.svg">
<action name="Execute"><execute>kitty</execute></action>
</item>
<item label="Web browser" icon="/usr/share/icons/Humanity/categories/24/applications-internet.svg">
<action name="Execute"><execute>x-www-browser</execute></action>
</item>
<separator />
<!-- This requires the presence of 'box-menu-rs' in $PATH to work -->
<menu id="applications-boxmenu" label="Apps" execute="box-menu-rs" icon="/usr/share/icons/Humanity/categories/24/applications-other.svg"/>
<separator />
<menu id="openbox-options" label="labwc" icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/labwc.svg">
<item label="Reconfigure">
<action name="Reconfigure" />
</item>
<item label="Restart">
<action name="Restart" />
</item>
<separator />
<item label="Exit">
<action name="If">
<prompt message="Do you really want to exit?"/>
<then>
<action name="Exit"/>
</then>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<item label='Shutdown'>
<action name="If">
<prompt message="Do you really want to shutdown?"/>
<then>
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
systemctl poweroff
</execute>
</action>
</then>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
</openbox_menu>The functionality of box-menu-rs is similar to: