Thanks for your input, but as I already wrote, deleting and re-generating the following files solved the problem: ~/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh ~/.config/plasma-localerc So it was certainly a "locale" problem.
BTW - from my experience, kde-link file permissions are rwxr--r-- and that's the case with mine too :-) On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:12:00 +0300 Amichai Rotman <poder.pingu...@gmail.com> wrote: > It might be a permissions problem on the "kde-link" file. > > I haven't used KDE for years now, so I don't know where to look. In > unity, all launchers are in the ~/.config directory. > > Amichai > > בתאריך יום ה׳, 16 באוג׳ 2018 ב-13:41 מאת Shachar Shemesh < > shac...@shemesh.biz>: > > > On 16/08/2018 12:30, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > > After more research, I'm pretty sure this is a KDE-Libreoffice > > interaction problem, but don't know how to solve it. Here's a > > summary of what I know and tried - #6 is really interesting/strange. > > > > 1 - click on a Hebrew file name - libreoffice says file does not > > exist. 2 - click on Libreoffice icon + try to open a Hebrew name - > > same result 3 - run libreoffice from command line - works OK > > 4 - sudo libreoffice also works OK but that's a BAD solution > > 5 - created a KDE "link to application" and chose "run in terminal" > > - libreoffice says file does not exist > > 6 - created a KDE "link to application" and chose "run in > > terminal" + "run as a different user" - KDE asks for a password > > and libreoffice works OK. NOTE: As the "other" user I chose my > > regular username!!! 7 - I read that the libreoffice-kde can cause > > problems so I un-installed it, but that didn't help (and it made a > > mess of the file open/save dialogue). > > > > > > > > As I already wrote, locale is set to en_US.UTF-8 > > solomon@shlomo1:~$ localectl > > System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8 > > VC Keymap: n/a > > X11 Layout: us > > X11 Model: pc105 > > solomon@shlomo1:~$ locale > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 > > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > > > > > > > At this point, if you run libreoffice from the command line, does > > it then work? > > > > > > > > > > > > BTW - is there any significance to the fact that some of the above > > lines say "en_US.UTF-8" and others en_US.UTF-8? > > > > Any help would be appreciated > > > > > > > > Those with the quotes are inferred. > > > > For me, the problem was that some of those lines said > > "en_IL.UTF-8", which is a locale that does not exist. > > > > Shachar > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
