Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> 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@localhost bin]$ pwd
> /home/dotancohen/bin
> [dotancohen@localhost bin]$ ls -l
> --snip--
> -rwxrwxr-- 1 dotancohen dotancohen 32 ×?פר 22 10:44 gimp
> [dotancohen@localhost bin]$ cat gimp
> #!/bin/bash
> export LANG=C
> gimp
>
> [dotancohen@localhost bin]$ cat ~/.bash_profile
> --snip--
> PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
>
> export PATH
> [dotancohen@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 "$@"
I doubt if that's the problem or the command would never complete. It
would just continue to recursively call itself until the system crashed.
If I recall correctly, the applications accessed by "Open with" are
specified by a full path. So "Open with" will always use /usr/bin/gimp
unless a new association is added. Another possibility is ~/bin is just
not in the PATH prior to /usr/bin.
Either way, adding the command line argument passed in by "Open with" is
correct. Otherwise you just end up with a copy of the gimp running but
it doesn't know which file to open.
Cheers,
Dave
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