<div>On 5/18/07, Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote></div> 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