LANG and Launcher

Jonathan Gardner bohemian72 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 10 19:42:51 CET 2003


Perhaps there's a more elegant way of doing this, but
could you perhaps write a short script with that line
and then launch THAT from the launcher?

Jonathan

--- The Matt <thompsma at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Sorry if I'm an idiot, but I can't seem to figure
> this out.  I recently
> installed straw and wanted to add a launcher for it.
>  The problem is
> straw requires LANG (or similar) to be defined in my
> environment.  I
> don't have it defined because I never needed it
> defined, I guess.  So,
> until I look and see if LANG is good to have defined
> in env, I know I
> can run straw with the command:
> 
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 straw
> 
> But, when I copied that into a launcher I get and
> error dialog:
> 
> Could not run command: LANG=en_US.UTF-8:
> Failed to execute child process "LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
> (No such file or
> directory)
> 
> So, how do I run LANG=x commands like this in
> launchers (I'm sure
> someone has done it with acroread and Red Hat)?
> 
> Matt
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