OmegaT for GNU/Linux comes with a nifty launcher that gives you a comprehensive GUI to most of the startup parameters without needing to do anything on the command line. Along with that I’m not sure that many Linux user use this script. I think, one of the reasons for that is that the script doesn’t save your choices and you have to enter them at each run, which isn’t too bad if OmegaT was installed by the provided installation script (a rare case, as far as I can tell). And then the launcher is written in a somewhat obscure scripting language that requires some familiarization if the defaults are to be edited. In this article I’ll show which parts of the code correspond to the respective GUI elements and what can be edited to make this script customized. Continue reading →