On Tuesday 11 September 2018 15:34:10 Stefan Krusche wrote:
Hello William,
thanks for your reply.
Am Dienstag, 11. September 2018 schrieb William Morder:
This might help, if pertinent to your question: Have you tried localepurge? You can choose more precise language settings, and discard others that don't apply. (I count 15 choices under "de" for German, for example, 35 under "en" for English.) Most users will only want one or two items, such as "en" and "en-us-utf8".
I assume that localepurge would also affect TDE, even though it is not TDE-specific software. Install that package, then run sudo dpkg-reconfigure localepurge, and you will get a list of locales.
No, my question wasn't about purging language files I don't use. That's about saving disk space automatically at installation. FIW, quite a while ago I checked out localpurge to purge the many TDE language files I never need, but you would have to configure the paths of those manually etc. which I didn't try.
Otherwise, I would say TCC, etc., as you have already tried.
Yep.
If I understand what you want, then you are on the right track with TCC / Regional & Accessibility / Country/Region & language, but maybe you didn't pursue it far enough.
Go to / locale (following the sequence above in TCC). Add whatever languages you want to have available, then you should be able to switch languages by right-clicking on the country flag in your taskbar at bottom.
However, I did just try this, and no countries or languages were available except US English ... but I think this is perhaps I have disabled other choices in localepurge. I used to enable Greek, for example, because I was setting some text for a translation; but this was back in the old KDE3.
I don't know if there is a way to do this by command-line, but, yes, that would be very useful. In the meanwhile, if all you want is to make it useful for yourself, then I think that you will find your solution in these places.
Bill
Does this concern the problem from an earlier thread, about logging in using non-English characters (e.g., an umlaut), or is it a separate issue?
I dunno. Which thread?
Kind regards, Stefan
P.S. regarding login with umlaut:
The heading and date of that thread:
Re: [trinity-users] Login into accounts with german umlaut Date: 2018-08-23 00:58 From: Stefan Krusche linux@stefan-krusche.de
I don't know if it goes back earlier, but I see your name again. Just trying either to narrow down the problem, or to connect the dots (if they do connect) to that earlier thread.
Bill