Always open Open Office in English

[Ghodmode]

On 5/18/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My system is not in English, but I want Open Office to always open in
> English. I know that I can append LANG=C to all the commands that open
> OOo, but there are many: sometimes I click on a file in Konqueror,
> sometimes I open OOo from the K menu, sometimes from within an email,
> and more. Where can I configure OOo to always be in English?
>
> Note that I'm not looking for an OOo-specific answer. There are other
> apps too, such as The Gimp, that I'd simply prefer for them to be in
> English no matter where I open them from.
>

The commands that are used to open OOo are all scripts that start the OOo
binary.  I think that you could solve your problem by setting the LANG
environment variable at the beginning of these scripts ...

$ ls -ltr /usr/bin/oo*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2985 2007-03-24 08:09 /usr/bin/ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/oofromtemplate ->
ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/ooffice -> ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/oowriter ->
ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/ooweb -> ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/oocalc -> ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/oomath -> ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/ooimpress ->
ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/oodraw -> ooo-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-04-02 15:33 /usr/bin/oobase -> ooo-wrapper

-- Vince
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