Setting locale for individual programs

[Ylan Segal]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> But I spoke too soon. ~/bin is now in my path, but if I name a script
> the same name as a program, say firefox, then the 'real' program is
> executed. So I put the new path at the _beginning_ of the line,
> thinking that would help, but it didn't:
> export PATH=/home/dotancohen/bin:$PATH

You can name it something else, and make an application launcher for
that program and put it in the gnome panel, desktop, etc. You can name
the launcher whatever you want (like "Enligh Kate") and even pick an
icon that agrees with you.

To do that, right click on the panel and click "Add to panel". You can
probably figure out from there (I can't give you more precise
instructions as I am not on my Ubuntu box right now).

> Now, even though I've a file named firefox, the 'real' firefox gets
> launched. How do I command it to look in ~/bin _before_ it looks in
> /usr/bin?

That, I don't know.

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