Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

Sven Arvidsson <sa@xxxxxxx>:

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.


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