menu stops being visible under Openbox

[Lew-Rockwell-Fan]

I realize Openbox is not the target environment, but if anyone has suggestions I'd appreciate them, because 9menu works well for me generally & would be perfect for what I want to do in this case if the menu would quit spontaneously hiding. This is under a plain Openbox under a light Ubuntu 18.04 built up from the mini.iso. This command gives a menu: 9menu -label 'viewnior image - persistent floating 9menu' -font "-*-dejavu sans-medium-r-*-*-40-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -bg "#000000" -fg "#ffffff" rename 'move to' 'copy to' "<---> flip" "^v flip" "90 Right" 180 '90 Left' junk exit but it disappears after a while without any evident reason. wmctrl -l shows it's still running & wmctrl -a will make it visible again, but it doesn't show up on Openbox's menu of running windows (kind of like a task bar). My Openbox rc.xml has 2 stanzas, which should keep it visible, but don't. Code tags chopped off the first of this for some reason so I'll try multiple pastes: <application class="9menu"> <decor>yes</decor> <focus>yes force="yes"</focus> <layer>above force="yes"</layer> <maximized>no</maximized> <skip_taskbar>no</skip_taskbar> <iconic>no</iconic> <skip_pager>no</skip_pager> <skip_taskbar>no</skip_taskbar> </application> And this one specific for the window should take precedence: <application title="viewnior image - persistent floating 9menu"> <decor>no</decor> <focus>no</focus> <layer>above force="yes"</layer> <maximized>no</maximized> <skip_taskbar>no</skip_taskbar> </application>

[Lew-Rockwell-Fan]

For anybody with a similar problem, this is a good work around. Follow the menu command with: while [ "$(wmctrl -l|grep " title$")" = '' ]; do sleep 0.3 done wmctrl -r "title" -b remove,hidden wmctrl -r "title" -b add,above

[arnoldrobbins]

This would very much seem to be an issue with Openbox, as the 9menu code hasn't changed in a long time. (Of course, if someone has a fix for 9menu itself, let me know.) I'm glad you found a workaround. I am closing this issue.