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Re: [trinity-users] change TDE language setting instantly + P.P.S. + P.P.P.S.

From: William Morder <doctor_contendo@...>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:44:34 -0700

On Tuesday 11 September 2018 17:22:15 William Morder wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2018 17:07:49 Stefan Krusche wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2018 schrieb William Morder:
> > > On Tuesday 11 September 2018 15:34:10 Stefan Krusche wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, that's what I did. And I was looking for exactly something like this
> > country-flag in taskbar, but I don't have that on my system. Mmh. How do
> > you get that? Can you enable that in TCC? I only know the one for
> > keyboard layouts.
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > P.P.S. WHOOPS!
> > > Also look under TCC / Regional & Accessibility / Country / keyboard
> > > layout,
> >
> > Keyboard layout is not the issue here.
>
> I believe that, actually, yes, this is where you need to add the language
> setting. That's how I could add other language GUIs. Then go to the next
> tab, Switching Options, and you can enable option "Show Country Flag", and
> you have further choices, e.g., Global, or per Application or per Window.
>
> Then you get the country flag in your taskbar, and after that, all you need
> to do is right-click and change. I just enabled (as an experiment), Greek,
> Russian, etc. (so that I would have an entirely different alphabet), and it
> works like that.
>
> Bill
>

It could be that I am dense, and have missed what you are really asking. 
(Sorry, I will blame it on lack of sleep and not enough coffee. Yeah, that 
sounds believable....) 

If you mean to change the language settings for the whole TDE desktop ... so 
that all headers - that is, in the programs themselves, are in German (for 
example) - then I think you need to set the locale in the TCC / System 
Administration / login manager / Adminstrator Mode. It has been awhile since 
I played with these settings, but I did try some different language settings 
there. That locale setting changes the GUI for the whole desktop (not just, 
as I was thinking, in Kmail, or in your web browser, or message boxes in chat 
programs, etc.). 

Sorry if I was misunderstanding your question. But this won't *instantly* 
change the whole GUI for the desktop; for that, you would need to reboot 
after making the change. 

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?
> > >
> > > 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@...>
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > OK. I didn't remember that one. It's not related, it's about entering
> > passwords in tdm.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Stefan
>
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