Re: set decimal separator permanently

[Pere Pujal i Carabantes <ppujal airtel net>]

Hi,


El dc 13 de 05 de 2015 a les 13:46 +0200, en/na Robert Andreasen va
escriure:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Am Wed, 13 May 2015 11:24:44 +0000
> schrieb Thomas Levine <_ thomaslevine com>:
>
> > I think Gnumeric's settings dialog isn't the best place for it;
> > your window manager is probably a better place. Moreover, your window
> > manager probably does this already. Do you use, for example, KDE or
> > GNOME?
>
> I'm using Mate. I tried to edit the default program for gnumeric
> files via: right click on gnumeric file in caja -> Properties -> Open
> with -> Add -> Userdefined ... -> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" gnumeric
>
> But all I get is a warning that the application »LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8«
> is not found.
>
> I also tried to edit the Mate Menu via mozo. I replaced the command
> 'gnumeric' with 'LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" gnumeric'. This results in
> gnumeric not being started anymore by the menu entry. And it also
> deletes all the default entries for that file type (see above).

You could create a shell file:
touch gnumeric.sh
chmod 755 gnumeric.sh

then fill the following 2 lines inside:

#!/bin/sh
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" gnumeric

Then call it from your window manager.


Hope this helps
Pere