On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 09:57 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:

On Friday, December 30, 2011 01:16:49 PM Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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I found that you need to set the language in your .bashrc file. For example, I had to add this to my file to get all non-KDE apps to be Russian:

export LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

I suspect you need this in yours:

export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

This effects GNOME apps, as well as character-based apps. Switching languages requires changing the KDE and .bashrc setting. Since it is your .bashrc, you will need to log out/in to get the non-KDE apps to follow suite.

FYI, I had a discussion here about this a year or so ago. This was the advice I got. And it works as advertised.

With a little more work you can have just selected applications starting in a language of your choice directly from GUI. I did that for fun with Konqueror starting in German. Basic is that shell command:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 konqueror

will start Konqueror with German translations, provided they are installed.

Of course. But it gets tiring when you want everything to be that way. The .bashrc solution makes for a consistent language change, whether starting a GUI app via a mouse click, or a character app in a GUI console. It also ensures that programs started by other programs get the setting. In that case, you seldom get to intervene. -- Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org