On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:50:03PM +1000 or thereabouts, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:08, Christian Persch wrote: > > Le mercredi 23 mars 2005 à 09:43 +0100, Roberto a écrit :
> > > Anyway, when I export LANG=en_US programs like XMMS, gqView, > > > MidnightCommander and many others _do_change language to english. > > > The problem regards only programs like Yelp or Nautilus. > > > > This is because there's only ever one instance of yelp; if you start it > > again, it only tells the existing yelp to open a new window. So I don't > > think there's a way to do this. > > A way of doing it is by starting the second yelp as another user: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ LANG=no yelp & > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su - otheruser > Password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ LANG=es yelp Since it's on Fedora Core 3, I'll add in a bit more for the archives (and hope I am right). On Fedora, the way to change a single user's default language is to use the ~/.i18n file (which corresponds to the global one in /etc/sysconfig/i18n). So you can just create a ~/.i18n file for the other user with the relevant locale in it, and everything for that user will come up in that language. I presume "su -" will set up the environment correctly. It certainly works for "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]", which I use: "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] yelp" just came up perfectly. In case you need an example, here are the .i18n files I have on the different accounts. I have a .i18n file of LANG="cy_GB.UTF-8" And my current otheruser (actually, called 'test' :)) account has a ~/.i18n of LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" As I say, this works on Fedora, but I think it may be quite specific to that distribution. I do not know whether any other distributions use this file. It's a lot simpler than sticking a list of possibly-relevant environment variables into .bashrc, .bash_profile, and everything else you can think of, which is what I did originally. Telsa _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
