# Dynamic menu for fluxbox


![](../../images/2015/fluxbox-dynmenu.jpg)

A little note to self inspired by [this
article](https://darkshed.net/article/dynamic-menus-in-fluxbox). A quick
way to add dynamic menus in fluxbox, for example to emulate that openbox
pipe menus thingy that shows all your directories tree inside a
menu...

First you have a script like this, that creates/updates a text file
containing a fluxbox submenu:


    echo "[submenu] (Works)  " >     /home/yorik/.fluxbox/worksfind / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec basename  ; | awk ' n"}' >> /home/yorik/.fluxbox/worksecho "[end]" >> /home/yorik/.fluxbox/works



Then in your fluxbox menu:


    [include] (/home/yorik/.fluxbox/works)



Then you need to run the first script from time to time, for example
adding it to your crontab.The apps are filled by the excellent
[xdgmenumaker](https://github.com/gapan/xdgmenumaker)...