User:Finn/openbox

the menu.xml entry:

...
 <menu id="Debian" /> 
 <separator /> 
 <menu id="client-list-menu" /> 
 <separator /> 
 <menu id="wallpapers" label="wallpapers" execute="/home/finn/.config/openbox/wallpaper.py" /> 
- <item label="ObConf">
...

/home/finn/.config/openbox/wallpaper.py :

 #!/usr/bin/python
 # Generates a dynamic menu
 import glob
 
 
 wallpapers = glob.glob('/home/finn/pictures/wallpaper/*'); wallpapers.sort()
 #wallpapers.sort()
 print '<openbox_pipe_menu>'
 for pic in wallpapers:
        name = pic.split('/')[-1]
        print '''
        <item label="%s">
                <action name="Execute"><execute>Esetroot -scale %s</execute></action>
        </item>''' % (name, pic)
 print '</openbox_pipe_menu>'

creates:

<openbox_pipe_menu>

        <item label="world.jpg">
                <action name="Execute"><execute>Esetroot -scale /home/finn/pictures/wallpaper/world.jpg</execute></action>
        </item>
</openbox_pipe_menu>