[Darktable-users] switching application language

[Edgar Scholz]

Hallo

How can I switch the language of darktabe from german to english?

Edgar

[SimGer]

Hello,

you could start darktable with $ LANG=C /opt/darktable/bin/darktable
--
Simon

Post by Edgar Scholz
Hallo
How can I switch the language of darktabe from german to english?
Edgar
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Post by Edgar Scholz
Hallo
How can I switch the language of darktabe from german to english?
Edgar

It's not possible switching language in DT preferences.
You should open a terminal and type:

export LANG=en
darktable

This works just for the current terminal session.

I prefer using always the english version, so I've created a file called
darktable in ~/bin, containing these lines:

#!/bin/sh
export LANG=en
/opt/darktable/bin/darktable

[Edgar Scholz]

ThankYou for your answers. They help me to understand Linux a little bit
more and solving my problem :)

I searched for an english mo-file and I didn´t find some. So I think,
your solution is the best, Simon, because it sets the locale to the
native language of the application, in this case to english, I think.

I like it very much to play with Linux. So I tested other locales for
"LANG" and find out, that it falls back to native written language, if
the locale doesn´t exist. For example: darktable-"en" doesn´t exist. So
"LANG=en darktable" will fall back to the native language of the
application. "LANG=rrrr darktable" does the same and "LANG= darktable"
starts darktable in english too.

I changed the run-string in the desktop-file for starting darktable from
"darktable %U" to "LANG=C darktable %U" and now it starts in english.

Edgar