Language settings in GNOME
 

Just a short question: How do I change the language setting, so that I have GNOME running in another language than English?

When I use the graphical logon I can select language there, but if I use the console where do I specify the language then??

And while I`m here, thanks for many helpful and interesting posts.

hi

language settings in console usually dont work. the localisation work for terminals are really complicated. do you really want to use your native language for typing commands. i think its better to stick with a gui

regards
rahul sundaram

Don't know if this is exactly relevant to what you mean but in

/etc/profile.d/

there are files you can change the setting in for instance my lang.sh had lang=C which defaulted to en_US, I changed it to lang=en_GB which seemed to affect the environment variables

I will try to edit the /etc/profile.d (just not home yet...)

I don`t know if I got the question right.
The thing is that I want to run GNOME in my native language (norwegian), without going thru the GDM.
I saw that when I started GDM I could specify the language, just wondering if I could modify settings so that GNOME runs in Norwegian when I start it from console (use startx)?

It`s a small thing, but I`m just wondering......

hi

ok. this clarifies many things. there must definitely a way to do this. poke around in gnome preferences and see if you can figure it out urself. i dont use gnome so i am not sure how to do it