On 01/05/07, 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 אפר 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 can't believe I didn't realize that's what it was doing. Thanks! Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_a_router.html http://what-is-what.com/what_is/wikipedia.html
