Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 02:54 +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > > When I give a demo to my friend, I want the desktop environment to use my > > > friend's language. > > > > Then determine the locale your friend understands, set your locale to > > that value, logout, then log back in, and re-start your applications. > > GDM (and possibly KDM and friends) let you select language before > logging in, making it easy to temporary switch. > > You could also make use of "New login in a Nested Window" (Xnest really) > to launch a new login with a different language in a window.
And, following John Hasler's suggestion, if these apps are console based, create two user accounts, define each to use one of the two locales, then <ALT>Fn between the two. If they're X based apps, run two instances of X (but that'll be expensive, RAM-wise). Linux/FOSS can certainly do it, just not the way the OP expected it could/should be done. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
