On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:42:03 +0200 Stefan Krusche linux@stefan-krusche.de wrote:
Am Dienstag, 11. September 2018 schrieb deloptes:
Stefan Krusche wrote:
is there a way to switch language setting for the GUI directly, i.e. not by clicking through TDE-Menu -> Trinity Control Center -> Regional & Access. -> Country/Region & Language -> Language List -> Move Up to have a particular program start with a different language? Something like TDE Keyboard Tool in Systray? Or via an command line option?
I do not think that application will reread somehow the settings - usually application has to be restarted.
Yes, it has. My use case is: running the GUI with my native language and when I need to start an application with English language. So the way would be just as described: switch global language settings and thereafter start the application, switch back and I would have a running german language GUI with one application with English language.
I was thinking of a quicker, one command way to switch global language settings. Now dcopserver comes to mind, too, but I haven't investigated the possibilities yet.
I was thinking if you start app with the language variable set, it would work, but I just tested and it does not
Ok, didn't think of that one. Maybe it's possible to work that out.
"LANG=x your_app" will start a program with a different language settings. But beware of LANG interaction with LC_ - LC_ overrides LANG. Use LC_ALL instead of LANG if you want to be 100% sure, but this can be undesirable... For example if you want to start application with english GUI, but have german sorting and dates, use "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 your_app"