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Supernormal
Asked: 2015-09-22 00:05:09 +0800 CST

Custom locale settings when launching program from KDE menu

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In KDE, I have noticed that GTK programs don't use the locale settings I specify in the KDE system settings, but rather the system-wide default locale. I want to change this behavior for Thunderbird, in particular.

I can do this in a terminal by running export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8; nice thunderbird but I cannot figure out how to apply these settings when launching Thunderbird from the KDE kicker menu.

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  1. Best Answer

    One way is to create this file:

    $ cat ~/bin/thunderbird
#!/bin/sh
export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
exec /usr/bin/thunderbird $@

    and make it executable: chmod +x ~/bin/thunderbird

    You may need to log out and log in again, if the ~/bin folder didn't exist previously.

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