Launching the Gimp in English

[jim tate]

Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>   
>> The Hebrew translation of the Gimp is very difficult to use because
>> some items were reversed for Right-to-Left, but the places to click
>> were not. Therefore, I'd like to use the gimp in English while keeping
>> my locale Hebrew. I created a bash script in ~/bin called gimp and
>> added it to my path:
>> [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ pwd
>> /home/dotancohen/bin
>> [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ ls -l
>> --snip--
>> -rwxrwxr-- 1 dotancohen dotancohen       32 אפר 22 10:44 gimp
>> [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ cat gimp
>> #!/bin/bash
>> export LANG=C
>> gimp
>>
>> [dotancohen at localhost bin]$ cat ~/.bash_profile
>> --snip--
>> PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
>>
>> export PATH
>> [dotancohen at localhost bin]$
>>
>> However, when I right-click a file and "Open with Gimp" it does not
>> open. What did I do wrong? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Dotan Cohen
>>
>> http://lyricslist.com/
>> http://what-is-what.com/
>>
>>     
>
> The script calls itself, recursively.  Instead, change the call to gimp
> in the script to use an absolute path name /usr/bin/gimp, and while
> you're at it, also pass any command line arguments on.  So the line becomes:
>
> /usr/bin/gimp "$@"
>
>
>   
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Jim