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    Question Different UI Language per User -- possible?

    Hi,
    I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with the Gnome desktop, with English interface. I want to open a new user account which will have a different UI language, but I can't find a way to do it -- I can only change the UI language for all users (from the language settings application). Am I missing something or is it just impossible to do what I want?
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    Re: Different UI Language per User -- possible?

    hi

    look here : "Per-user language support?", that worked great for me

    i just "sudo gedit" to the user file add the language, switch user and it work.

    to find all your currently installed locales type in terminal
    Code:
    locale -a

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    Re: Different UI Language per User -- possible?

    Thanks KaliVoid, it worked perfectly on my machine as well.
    Funny, I searched the forums before I opened this thread but somehow managed to miss the thread you linked to.
    The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity
    To me, GPL still means Grand Prix Legends...

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    Re: Different UI Language per User -- possible?

    For me editing the .dmrc file did not work. What did work was adding these lines to .profile:

    export LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
    export LC_ALL=hu_HU.UTF-8
    export LANGUAGE=hu_HU.UTF-8

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