Desktop VLC launchers in various languages ...

[shantiq]

Trying to set up Desktop VLC launchers in various languages ...

VLC does not allow users to change default language from GUI [which is an odd decision since users of a given machine might need to do that]; it automatically picks the locale language


Thanx to this thread

i saw there is an easy terminal way


so i run

LANGUAGE=pt_BR  vlc

and

LANGUAGE=ru vlc

and all is fine


Now my question is how do i write this in a launcher ?

It works from terminal but not from the launcher in this form


what do i need to write there?

[Desktop Entry]Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=vlc
Name[pt_BR]=vlc
Exec=LANGUAGE=pt_BR vlc ??

[not accepted] i tried speech marks around command and still no good it probably needs something else also tried LANGUAGE=pt_BR /usr/bin/vlc

[mc4man]

Whether it works or not you'll need to try (never used anything but my locale

Exec=env LANGUAGE=pt_BR  vlc %U

Other options would be to create a small script that launches vlc as desired, then use in launcher - (assumes script is in a bin in PATH

Exec=scriptname

(if you can run the script from alt+f2 then it will always work in ^

..........not really relevant, but will leave..........

Or an bash alias using an export, ex. below of structure from one I use

alias mplayer1='export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl && mplayer'

(can go in ~/.bash_aliases

[shantiq]

Thank you Mc

Exec=env LANGUAGE=pt_BR  vlc %U

works a dream!






Now i can have 3 VLCs or more in different languages on my desktop depending on mood ::]]

[mc4man]

env usually works well in a .desktop

Opps - see you don't need below, ...

Here I like to keep the menu in vlc. 14.04 has a gsetting for that now but it doesn't work for qt4 apps so use

Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1  vlc %U

If you wanted that you could try

Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 LANGUAGE=pt_BR  vlc %U

[shantiq]

yes it works too... earlier one is faster it seems

[mc4man]

Does anything change if reveresed

Exec=env LANGUAGE=pt_BR QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 vlc %U

[shantiq]

then it is fast again::]]

[mc4man]

then it is fast again::]]

Cool, it's good to know that if stringing multi env's the order can matter.