On Friday, December 30, 2011 01:16:49 PM Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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. To have entry in KDE menu called Konqueror-de: * Right click Main Menu and select Edit. This opens Menu Editor. * Find Konqueror in Applications > Internet > Browsing * Right click on Konqueror and from the list select Copy . * Right click and from the list select Paste. This will create new entry Konqueror-2. The right side of the editor window will show exact copy of Konqueror entry. * Change entry "Command line" to LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 konqueror * Save, close editor. This way is useful if user needs only few applications in a different language. In general: * If you have to switch only on occasions to different language, then changing .bashrc is ok, as it requires to stop any work and log out and back in. * If you have to switch frequently and fast, then another user with .bashrc pointing to another language is the way. Then you start another session with that user. Switching between Sessins (users) can be done with ctrl-alt-F7 and ctrl-alt-F8 . * If you have to copy paste between languages, then having applications started from command line with LANG prefixing actual binary, as described above, is the only way I know. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org