Launching the Gimp in English

[Dotan Cohen]

On 01/05/07, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > The Hebrew translation of the Gimp is very difficult to use because
> > some items were reversed for Right-to-Left, but the places to click
> > were not. Therefore, I'd like to use the gimp in English while keeping
> > my locale Hebrew. I created a bash script in ~/bin called gimp and
> > added it to my path:
> > [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ pwd
> > /home/dotancohen/bin
> > [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ ls -l
> > --snip--
> > -rwxrwxr-- 1 dotancohen dotancohen       32 אפר 22 10:44 gimp
> > [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ cat gimp
> > #!/bin/bash
> > export LANG=C
> > gimp
> >
> > [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ cat ~/.bash_profile
> > --snip--
> > PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
> >
> > export PATH
> > [dotancohen at localhost bin]$
> >
> > However, when I right-click a file and "Open with Gimp" it does not
> > open. What did I do wrong? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://lyricslist.com/
> > http://what-is-what.com/
> >
>
> The script calls itself, recursively.  Instead, change the call to gimp
> in the script to use an absolute path name /usr/bin/gimp, and while
> you're at it, also pass any command line arguments on.  So the line becomes:
>
> /usr/bin/gimp "$@"
>
>

I can't believe I didn't realize that's what it was doing. Thanks!

Dotan Cohen

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