KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

Michael Häsel

7 May 2002 7 May '02

07:34

Sorry, red the announcement too late that this list is only in English. I will try to translate the text although my English is not very good. Yesterday evening a problem with KDE 3.0 (SuSE 8.0) appeared, that it only provided English as standart-language. Before I could open the most programs providing german text. I tried to restore the old settings In the controlcenter back to german, but it had no effect. Even after restarting the X-server everything stayed in English. The problem appeared, as I lauched YaST2, to install a new package. But the program crashed somehow. Not that I could not kill it, but nothing happened for a very long time. I tried it without X in a console and there nothing happened, too. But after exiting the program with Ctrl-C, an errormessage appeared, telling me, a share, mounted from another computer wasn't available any more. May be this has to do something with it. What can I do, to change the standart-language back from English to German? Thank you, Michael

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Michael

7 May 7 May

09:07

New subject: [suse-kde] KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

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From: "Michael Häsel" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: [suse-kde] KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

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Sorry, red the announcement too late that this list is only in English.

I will try to translate the text although my English is not very good.

Yesterday evening a problem with KDE 3.0 (SuSE 8.0) appeared, that it only provided English as standart-language. Before I could open the most

programs

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providing german text. I tried to restore the old settings In the controlcenter back to german, but it had no effect. Even after restarting the X-server everything stayed in English.

The problem appeared, as I lauched YaST2, to install a new package. But the program crashed somehow. Not that I could not kill it, but nothing happened for a very long time. I tried it without X in a console and there nothing happened, too. But after exiting the program with Ctrl-C, an errormessage appeared, telling me, a share, mounted from another computer wasn't available any more. May be this has to do something with it.

What can I do, to change the standart-language back from English to German?

Thank you,

Michael

At first try to install the german-language-package from suse-fileserver again, otherwise let us know the complete errormessage. Michael

Leendert Meyer

15:57

New subject: [suse-kde] KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 11:07, Michael wrote:

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I tried to restore the old settings In the controlcenter back to german, but it had no effect. Even after restarting the X-server everything stayed in English.

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At first try to install the german-language-package from suse-fileserver again, otherwise let us know the complete errormessage.

And have a look in the SDB (both German as well as English). I'm thinking about "Änderungen am Desktop von root bleiben nicht erhalten" (17.04.2002), http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/thallma_rootkde_80.html (Sorry non-germans, this page is only in german ;-), translated: Root desktop changes are not permanent). Maybe this article applies to you. Leen

Michael Häsel

22:09

New subject: [suse-kde] KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

On Tuesday 07 Mai 2002 17:57, Leendert Meyer wrote:

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On Tuesday 07 May 2002 11:07, Michael wrote:

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I tried to restore the old settings In the controlcenter back to german, but it had no effect. Even after restarting the X-server everything stayed in English.

At first try to install the german-language-package from suse-fileserver again, otherwise let us know the complete errormessage.

And have a look in the SDB (both German as well as English). I'm thinking about "Änderungen am Desktop von root bleiben nicht erhalten" (17.04.2002), http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/thallma_rootkde_80.html (Sorry non-germans, this page is only in german ;-), translated: Root desktop changes are not permanent).

Maybe this article applies to you.

Leen

Thanks for the help, but that does not help. I reinstalled the german language-pack, but it had no effect. As in SuSE-supportdatabase reportet, creating a file called kdebase3 in the /root/.skel - directory, did not help either. I would give you the errormessage, if I would know, where to search. The output on the console, from which I started X, does not change, when I try to change the settings and in /var/log/XFree86.0.log nothing changes, too. There is no errormessage, when I klick on apply, after changing language from custom to german, too. Michael Häsel

Leendert Meyer

8 May 8 May

15:20

New subject: [suse-kde] KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 00:09, Michael Häsel wrote:

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On Tuesday 07 Mai 2002 17:57, Leendert Meyer wrote:

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On Tuesday 07 May 2002 11:07, Michael wrote:

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I tried to restore the old settings In the controlcenter back to german, but it had no effect. Even after restarting the X-server everything stayed in English.

At first try to install the german-language-package from suse-fileserver again, otherwise let us know the complete errormessage.

And have a look in the SDB (both German as well as English). I'm thinking about "Änderungen am Desktop von root bleiben nicht erhalten" (17.04.2002), http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/thallma_rootkde_80.html (Sorry non-germans, this page is only in german ;-), translated: Root desktop changes are not permanent).

Maybe this article applies to you.

Leen

Thanks for the help, but that does not help. I reinstalled the german language-pack, but it had no effect. As in SuSE-supportdatabase reportet, creating a file called kdebase3 in the /root/.skel - directory, did not help either.

I would give you the errormessage, if I would know, where to search. The output on the console, from which I started X, does not change, when I try to change the settings and in /var/log/XFree86.0.log nothing changes, too. There is no errormessage, when I klick on apply, after changing language from custom to german, too.

I did some research on my system (SuSE 7.3): I've installed the german language pack for kde-3.0 (dutch was already installed) and I've tried both languages as root and as normal user (my own account). In every case, after logging out and in again, the chosen language was used. 1. Language settings in KDE are user specific. They are kept in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals, section "[Locale]". At this moment, in that section, I have there (amongst a few other keys): - Country=de - Language=de File ownership & permissions: "ls -l kdeglobals" gives: -rw------- 1 leen users 6493 May 8 17:00 kdeglobals and "ls -l .." gives: drwx------ 4 leen users 2776 May 8 17:00 config So both the config directory as well as kdeglobals are readable and writable. Please check if that is the case in your home directory. Also have a look in kdeglobals, at the "Locale" section, and check for the "Language" and "Country" keys. They should have the value "de". 2. Check /etc/fstab. Is your /home directory on a different partition? If so, what partition? Well, I hope this info is of some use to you. :-) Leen

Michael Häsel

15:52

New subject: [suse-kde] KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

Hi Leen,

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I did some research on my system (SuSE 7.3): ... File ownership & permissions: "ls -l kdeglobals" gives: -rw------- 1 leen users 6493 May 8 17:00 kdeglobals

and "ls -l .." gives: drwx------ 4 leen users 2776 May 8 17:00 config

So both the config directory as well as kdeglobals are readable and writable. Please check if that is the case in your home directory. Also have a look in kdeglobals, at the "Locale" section, and check for the "Language" and "Country" keys. They should have the value "de".

the owner and group belonged to root. I have no idea how this had changed, because I am not aware that I changed this. Maybe it has something to do with the YaST-problem I wrote about. Thank you very much, it really was useful. Michael After resetting the ownership back to these of my user, it worked again.

Leendert Meyer

19:17

New subject: [suse-kde] KDE 3.0 does not change its appearance

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 17:52, Michael Häsel wrote:

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Hi Leen,

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I did some research on my system (SuSE 7.3):

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File ownership & permissions: "ls -l kdeglobals" gives: -rw------- 1 leen users 6493 May 8 17:00 kdeglobals

and "ls -l .." gives: drwx------ 4 leen users 2776 May 8 17:00 config

So both the config directory as well as kdeglobals are readable and writable. Please check if that is the case in your home directory. Also have a look in kdeglobals, at the "Locale" section, and check for the "Language" and "Country" keys. They should have the value "de".

the owner and group belonged to root. I have no idea how this had changed, because I am not aware that I changed this. Maybe it has something to do with the YaST-problem I wrote about.

Thank you very much, it really was useful.

Michael

After resetting the ownership back to these of my user, it worked again.

;-)) Considering the YasT2 problem: try to install the package you had a problem with, again. Watch for the error message, and copy or write it down. After closing YaST2, look in /var/log/y2log* (on my SuSE 7.3 system) for suspicious messages (near the end of the files). Maybe you can find something. Leen

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