How to change language in linux mint

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How to change language?

How to change language?

Post by hali » Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:55 pm

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Post by MrCoOl » Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:38 pm

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Post by StratosJL » Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:25 am

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Post by xcausex » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:42 pm

The «Language Support» gui thing is pretty standard to most all Ubuntu based systems.

For my Fluxbox edition of Linux Mint it was under System Tools > System Tools > Language Support. I can’t recall where the Gnome version sticks it, but it’s bound to be under something like Administration > Language Support.

That is your best bet, find that and make use of it, as it drastically simplifies the matter of adding language support and other locales and even input methods, which is what I generally need it for, to add Ibus and Anthy to aid in my attempts to learn Japanese.

Re: How to change language?

Post by Teucca » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:46 pm

I hawe also loking for this!!
In Mint 9 isadora its under gnome-language-selector, but I didnt find in LMDE??

I have made an Instructions with Mint 8 Helena for users and languages http://linuxmint-fi.info/kayttajat-ja-kielet/

Re: How to change language?

Post by xcausex » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:02 pm

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Post by StratosJL » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:49 am

OK, the solution is described in the Debian wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Locale

Looks like, for Debian, real men do it with the keyboard. I really much preferred the «Language Support» menu, regardless.

Re: How to change language?

Post by Teucca » Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:37 am

StratosJL wrote: OK, the solution is described in the Debian wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Locale

Looks like, for Debian, real men do it with the keyboard. I really much preferred the «Language Support» menu, regardless.

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Post by cyril4133 » Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:19 pm

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Post by xenopeek » Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:59 pm

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Post by reddy13 » Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:13 am

I’ve same problem and don’t found answer.
I want to use US/EN language in my system, but after installing my nationalities locales (russian encodings), all settings in my environement will be reset to rus. I try to dpkg-reconfigure locales and set default US.utf-8 (and GB.utf8 too), but no success, all programs still use russian text instead of US or En. Also, don’t found package ‘Language support’ in synaptic and didn’t have ‘Language’ in system menu.

It would be great if somebody help me to change language, i can’t work with non-english interface, it looking ugly.

My distr : LMDE 201109 Gnome, 64 bit.

Re: How to change language?

Post by reddy13 » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:09 am

Solved :
When you logging in system (prompt user password on logon screen), in the bottom of screen appears panel where you can choose language.

Also, i remove all locales from dpkg-reconfigure (except enUS.utf8) and reinstall my national locales.

Re: How to change language?

Post by filozofio » Sun Jun 01, 2014 5:51 pm

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Change Language Settings in Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Both Ubuntu and Linux Mint have support for many different languages. Wherever you come from or whatever language you speak, chances are that Ubuntu and Linux Mint supports your language.

Ubuntu

These steps work in the Unity and Ubuntu on Wayland desktop environments. You will need to type in your administrator password periodically to make these changes.

First, either type “language” in the search box, or click “Activities”, then type “language”. Select “Language Support” from the program list.

Ubuntu Language Support, Ubuntu Desktop Environment

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If you get a warning message indicating that language support is not installed completely, click “Install”.

You may get a warning message saying that the system is waiting for the unattended upgrade to complete. If you get this message, simply reboot your computer and keep rebooting it until the unattended upgrade is finished.

Next, the Language Support dialog box will appear. Click “Install/Remove Languages”.

In the next window, you will see the languages that are already installed on your system. To install a new language in Ubuntu, simply check the box next to the language. Then click “Apply”.

In the Language tab of the Language Support dialog, click and drag the desired language to the top of the list. In my case, I have selected “Español: (México)” to drag to the top of the language list. The top level language will become the language for your menus and windows. Every language below the second one in the list will be ignored.

Click “Apply System-Wide”.

Now, click the “Regional Formats” tab. This will set the language for things like the date and time, currency and number formats. Again, select the desired language. In my example, I have selected “Español: (México)”. Click “Apply System-Wide.” Click “Close”.

Next, log out of Ubuntu and log back in to activate your language changes. Alternatively, you could also restart, or shut down and turn the computer back on again manually.

When Ubuntu starts again, a window will appear offering to activate the new language. The text will differ based on your chosen language. To accept the changes, click the button on the right. To cancel them, click the button on the left.

If the language settings were successful, the entire operating system should appear in the desired language.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with language set to Spanish, region set to Mexico.

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Linux Mint

Click the Menu button, then type “language” in the search bar.

Select “Languages: Language Settings”. By “Language Support”, click “Install/Remove Languages”.

Click the “Add…” button.

Scroll down until you find the desired language, then select it and click “Install”.

Then select the desired language and click “Install Language Packs”.

If the installation was successful, then the language list should read “Fully Installed” in green. Click “Close”.

Under Language Settings, click the button beside “Language”, then select the desired language. Repeat with the button beside “Region”. Click “Apply System-Wide” for both language and region.

Log out and log back in, or reboot your computer to apply the changes.

When you log back in, a dialog box will appear. To apply the changes, click the button on the right. To cancel, click the button on the left.

If the language settings were successful, the entire operating system interface will appear in the desired language.

Linux Mint 19.1 with language set to French, and region set to France.

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How to Change the Language at the Command Line

To change the language settings manually, simply edit two configuration files. You will need the codes for the desired language and country before editing these files. (You may need to download and install the language packs in Language Support prior to making these edits.) For example, to change the language to German:

sudo nano /etc/default/locale

Click CTRL+X to save your changes.

You may manually change the other settings in these files, as well. Log out and lock back in again, or restart the computer to complete the language settings change.

When you log back in, you will see a dialog box. To accept the changes, click the button on the right. To cancel, click the button on the left.

If you have any problems with the language settings, you can check them at the command line. Type the following command to see your language settings.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with language set to German, region set to Germany.

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Shortcut for switching between keyboard layouts (languages)?

Shortcut for switching between keyboard layouts (languages)?

Post by beansandjeans » Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:11 pm

So I recently installed Mint 13 XFCE on a netbook, and this computer is shared with someone who uses the German keyboard layout. I have both keyboard layouts (German and US English) set-up, but the process of switching between them is somewhat tedious — I have to go into the keyboard settings menu, and from there to the layout tab, and then switch from one language to the other. I put a shortcut to this menu on the desktop, so at least I don’t have to navigate through the menu to get to it, but it’s still rather tedious.

This is the first time I’ve worked used multiple keyboard layouts on a Linux computer. On Windows it was always just a matter of Alt-Shift.

So I’m wanting to know if there’s any existing shortcut that could be used, or if one could be set up.

In that same keyboard menu there’s an «application shortcuts» tab, and I’ve made a new shortcut already for an application, but I imagine this might also work for other keyboard shortcuts in general. But for that I need a command, and I don’t know what the command is to switch between keyboard layouts. I hope there is one, and preferably one that can be used to toggle it in either direction (the same command to switch from English to German and vice versa), but if has to be two separate commands that’s not a big deal.

All help much appreciated! Thanks

Re: Shortcut for switching between keyboard layouts (languag

Post by beansandjeans » Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:38 pm

Nobody had replied here, so I did a bit more digging and finally found a thread on a PC Linux forum which discussed this: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=95438.0

One of the replies gave this command: «setxkbmap XX» (excluding the quotation marks), with the «XX» for the keyboard layout language.

So for the shortcuts then, «setxkbmap de» ended up working for German. «setxkbmap en» DOESN’T work for English, but «setxkbmap us» did, and I would imagine similar commands for other variants would as well, like «setxkbmap uk» for the UK English layout.

I’m not sure if these commands also work in Gnome/MATE or other environments, or if they’re just for XFCE.

Also still don’t know if there’s one command that would toggle it in both directions. If anyone knows if that’s possible, please let me know.

But at least it’s working a lot better now than having to go into the menu each time!

Re: Shortcut for switching between keyboard layouts (languag

Post by nissimnanach » Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:18 pm

LINUX MINT 14: LEFT SHIFT + CAPS LOCK is default

Change default by:
1. Right-click on keyboard language indicator in right
2. Select «Layouts» tab
3. Options: KEYS TO CHANGE LAYOUT

Re: Shortcut for switching between keyboard layouts (languag

Post by OxidE » Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:38 am

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Post by dman » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:26 pm

That’s to switch between English-US and German-DE on the command line using Alt+Shift.

I’m trying to figure out where to put that for a permanent setting. I know where in Lubuntu, but that path and file are not applicable to xfce.

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Post by yarlipo » Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:48 pm

It amazes me that Linux Mint doesn’t have a built in solution for toggling languages. Nevertheless, I used the solution posted above, and I figured out a way to store it between sessions. Hopefully people can find this straight away, it took me days to find a solution.

Go to Menu — Settings — Session and Startup. Chose application autostart. Click on add. Fill in the first two lines with whatever you prefer, and then in the Command field paste the code dman kindly provided:

setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle «de,us»

replacing de and us with your own language code.

Note that the language mentioned first will be activated as the default language when you boot.

That’s it! Now your linux mint install remembers the toggle between sessions.

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