diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd2978b..abf2395 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -212,7 +212,20 @@ refresh the menu, like this:
 Openbox
 -------
 
-You can create pipe menus for Openbox running xdgmenumaker like this:
+xdgmenumaker creates pipe-menus for Openbox, which are, by definition,
+dynamic menus. The simplest way to have an auto-generated "Applications"
+submenu in the main Openbox menu, you can just add a line like the following
+one somewhere inside the `<menu id="root-menu">` in your
+`~/.config/openbox/menu.xml` file::
+
+    <menu execute="xdgmenumaker -i -f openbox" id="xdg-pipe-menu" label="Applications"/>
+
+This menu will be generated every time you open the Openbox menu, so it will
+always be up-to-date.
+
+Alternatively, you can create a static menu, which you can then include
+through a pipe-menu in your main menu too. To do that, run
+xdgmenumaker like this:
 
     $ xdgmenumaker -f openbox > ~/.cache/openbox/apps.menu
 
diff --git a/man/xdgmenumaker.t2t b/man/xdgmenumaker.t2t
index 058995c..0da7753 100644
--- a/man/xdgmenumaker.t2t
+++ b/man/xdgmenumaker.t2t
@@ -303,16 +303,25 @@ refresh the menu, like this:
 
 : **Openbox**
 
-To generate an application menu for Openbox, run **xdgmenumaker** like this:
+**xdgmenumaker** creates pipe-menus for Openbox, which are, by definition,
+dynamic menus. The simplest way to have an auto-generated "Applications"
+submenu in the main Openbox menu, you can just add a line like the following
+one somewhere inside the //<menu id="root-menu">// in your
+//~/.config/openbox/menu.xml// file::
 
-``$ xdgmenumaker -f openbox > ~/.cache/openbox/apps.menu``
+``<menu execute="xdgmenumaker -i -f openbox" id="xdg-pipe-menu" label="Applications"/>``
 
-or if you want icons in your menu:
+This menu will be generated every time you open the Openbox menu, so it will
+always be up-to-date.
 
-``$ xdgmenumaker -i -f openbox > ~/.cache/openbox/apps.menu``
+Alternatively, you can create a static menu, which you can then include
+through a pipe-menu in your main menu too. To do that, run
+**xdgmenumaker** like this:
+
+``$ xdgmenumaker -f openbox > ~/.cache/openbox/apps.menu``
 
 and you can then edit your //~/.config/openbox/menu.xml// file and add this
-line somewhere in the //<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">// section:
+line somewhere in the //<menu id="root-menu">// section:
 
 ``<menu execute="cat ~/.cache/openbox/apps.menu" id="applications-pipe-menu" label="Applications"/>``