Re: change an environment variable in a running gnome session

[ghee teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 18:00 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
>  
>
> > Shaun McCance <shaunm gmail com> writes:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > This is far from trivial.  A lot of applications do more than just
> > > gettext on GTK+ labels, and changing an Xsetting or something else
> > > isn't going to magically make them refresh all their data.  I'm not
> > > saying it's not a worthy cause.  But many applications are written
> > > assuming that locale information doesn't change in their lifecycle,
> > > so there will be a lot of work ahead of us to get all these apps
> > > responding to locale changes.
> > >      
> > This is starting to become a FAQ.  I threw together a little page about
> > what's needed if someone wants to attempt this.
> >
> > http://live.gnome.org/GTK+/DynamicLanguages
> >
> >    
>
> I think it's insane, personally ... it's just like session management,
> only 10x worse: it requires every app to make complex, rarely-tested,
> and pervasive changes; and it's only useful if every app does this
> thoroughly and robustly. Nobody is going to want to switch languages
> dynamically if half the apps (or strings in apps) don't work (or quite
> likely in this case, half the apps crash).
>  
   The only time this is a real requirements is when one wants to
run multiple languages, multople apps within the same session. Though
I suspect this is rare :) .

For that there is a workaround, in a terminal type: LC_ALL=<locale> 
run_app &

-Ghee

> Since there's no chance of it ever really working it's better to just
> require logout and login, probably...
>
> Havoc
>
>
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