[SOLVED] Changing lang

scam · 02-10-2012, 11:12 AM

Hi all, i was wondering what's the way to change the language on slackware. I've googled around but not working.

Thanks

Ilgar · 02-10-2012, 11:19 AM

Do you mean the keyboard language or system locale? For the latter, try editing /etc/profile.d/lang.sh

yasoo · 02-10-2012, 05:23 PM

Hello scam,

I found this link very useful for language settings on slackware.

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/01...derivativ.html

Greets
Yasoo

scam · 02-11-2012, 04:10 AM

Thanks Ilgar,yasoo yes i wanted to know how to change the keyboard language, and is it possible to give one user say english and another german.

wildwizard · 02-11-2012, 04:38 AM

For per user settings

"man bash" gives us this section on invocation :-

Quote:

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

/etc/profile.d/lang.sh (System setting)
~/.bash_profile (User setting)

Do note that ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login ~/.profile are searched for in order but only the first one that is found is actually executed.