CentOS - May 2006 - Setting a different LANG variable for a single GTK application?

Hi,

I just installed GtkCDLabel, a nifty little app to create CD covers in a matter
of minutes, if not seconds, and which I've been using on a daily basis on
Slackware (previous system).

I've encountered some encoding issues. Whenever my CD text contains french
special characters like ?, ?, ? and ?, the resulting .ps file displays martian
characters instead.

'printenv' shows me that the default LANG variable on my system is
fr_FR.UTF-8.
So I tried to start the app from the terminal with:

$ LANG=fr_FR && gtkcdlabel

... and everything worked fine.

The problem is now including this workaround in the corresponding .desktop menu
entry in /usr/share/applications. When I try to replace

Exec=gtkcdlabel

by

Exec='LANG=fr_FR && gtkcdlabel'

... GNOME complains about an error.

My second attempt included an alias in /etc/bashrc, which resulted in a partial
success. Typing 'gtkcdlabel' in gnome-terminal, I get the correct
result. But
when the app is launched from the desktop menu, it is unimpressed by the alias.
Which leaves me clueless. Is there any other place where I could define a more
global alias?

Niki Kovacs

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Exec='LANG=fr_FR && gtkcdlabel'
There probably is a more elegant manner to solve this, but what about:

Exec=sh -c 'LANG=fr_FR ; gtkcdlabel'

-- Daniel

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> The problem is now including this workaround in the corresponding 
> .desktop menu entry in /usr/share/applications. When I try to 
> replace
>
> Exec=gtkcdlabel
>
> by
>
> Exec='LANG=fr_FR && gtkcdlabel'
>
> ... GNOME complains about an error.
This is what env(1) is intended to address:

   Exec='/bin/env LANG=fr_FR gtkcdlabel'

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com