Openbox 3.5.0 was released yesterday, and with it several bugs got fixed and a few new features were added. Out of these features the one that I liked most was the ability to add icons to menus (and submenus as well)! Yeah, I know some other managers already do this but for someone who enjoys running Openbox because of its simplicity and keyboard binding limitless possibilities, I was sure glad to see some eye candy make its way to it.

So, if you want to try it, make sure that your distribution has the new Openbox compiled with Imlib2. Next, add the following line to the <menu> section of your *rc.xml* file:

<showIcons>yes</showIcons>

Then, modify your *menu.xml* by adding an icon attribute to what ever menu item or menu you want to add an icon.

<menu id="apps-net-menu" icon="/usr/share/icons/Tango/24x24/apps/internet-web-browser.png"/>
<menu id="apps-net-menu" label="Internet">
    <menu id="apps-net-browsers" label="Browsers">
        <item label="Firefox" icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firefox.png">
        <action name="Execute">
          <command>firefox</command>
          <startupnotify>
            <enabled>yes</enabled>
            <wmclass>Firefox</wmclass>
          </startupnotify>
        </action>
        </item>
        .
        .
        .
</menu>

Make sure to restart openbox and enjoy your fancy new menu!