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wybodekker

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Registered: 2016-07-05

Posts: 2

use environment variables in panel launchers

one of my panel launchers starts icedove, but it not see my environment variable: LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8. How can I let it honor that variable so that my date will be formatted as yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM?

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: use environment variables in panel launchers

Try the following as your launcher command:

env LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 icedove

If that doesn't work, try:

bash -c "env LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 icedove"

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wybodekker

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Registered: 2016-07-05

Posts: 2

Re: use environment variables in panel launchers

thanks! Both worked. I had tried the first before, but without the "env", like I normally do on the command line.