mkmenu converts simple text files to Openbox compatible XML. It is similar to menumaker in purpose however this is openbox exclusive and aims to be very simple.

Run mkmenu -h.

Menus are generated from plain text files, and they follow a very simple structure

#named separator
category
  item:cmd
  #named separator
  item:cmd
  ---
  subcategory
    item:cmd
    item:cmd
    item:cmd
item:cmd
item:cmd

• Where --- is a separator, without any text.
• Identation (2 spaces or 1 tab) controls the scope of the menus.
• For commands to be run on a terminal emulator prepend @T before the command
• @T will be converted your terminal command of choice, by default st -e is used.
• You can have multiple files as input, they'll be concatenated in order of input as one file and then processed into XML.