Environment variable when running OOo from menus

2007-02-18 Thread Alan Yaniger
Hi everyone, When OpenOffice saves a file with Hebrew in the filename, it checks the system locale to see which encoding it should use. This causes problems if OpenOffice is run with a shell using an en_US locale. If a user saves a file with Hebrew in the filename, closes the file, and then

Re: Environment variable when running OOo from menus

2007-02-18 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi Alan, You should modify /usr/share/applications/ooo-*.desktop files, or equivalent files in the OOo sources: Set up environment variables as you wish, before running the actual programs inside those *.desktop files. Another possibility is to call shell scripts from *.desktop files, do not

Re: Environment variable when running OOo from menus

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/02/07, Moshe Gorohovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, You should modify /usr/share/applications/ooo-*.desktop files, or equivalent files in the OOo sources: I'd recommend avoiding changing these files because they usually belong to the package and will either confuse it when you