Hi again, although this drives slightly out of topic for the debian-OOo list it also touches the use of OOo and the installation setup.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:15:28PM +0100, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: > This works fine from the shell, where I can set the appropriate > environment variables (LANG, LC_ALL). > The problem arises in kde, when OOo is invoked from a menu. This > obviously does not honor the user settings and thus OOo sets LOCALEOO to the > default of en-US. > > I can change this by creating the file /etc/openoffice1.1/openoffice.conf > (which is read by the wrapper script /usr/bin/openoffice1.1) and putting > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (example) into it. > > But this is no real solution as it changes systemwide to another > default. > > The user locale settings are honoured when I change the first line of > /usr/bin/openoffice1.1 to > > #!/bin/bash --login > > This reads in the user environment, which #!/bin/sh doesn't. > I don't expect this to be a clean solution. > > BTW, the same problem appears with the user setting of umask. I have a > umask of 007 on shell level but OOo creates files with -rw-r--r--. > > Any solution? After I wrote this I did some searches and found this link, where the general problem is described quite well: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2002/debian-kde-200209/msg00083.html This was one year ago and I wonder if this problem is already solved. Helmut -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Helmut Lichtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel. +49 (0)5034/871-128 Institut für Tierzucht 31535 Neustadt Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------
