how to switch the language in GIMP

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Alebo · Post by **Alebo** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:27 pm

Hello

I have an english KDE, but I would like to use GIMP in german. How can I change it's language?

wdreinhart · Post by **wdreinhart** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:06 pm

Set your LC_ALL environment variable (LANG may work too) to a German locale, and start The Gimp. The easiest way is just start it from a terminal like this:

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LC_ALL=de gimp-2.2

If that doesn't work, try setting LC_ALL to de_DE or de_AT instead of just de...

revertex · Post by **revertex** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:40 pm

wdreinhart, thanks for that nice tip.
i just eddited my fluxbox menu, and now i can launch gimp in my native language an in english.
Gimp in english is a must have to me to easily follow the tutorials.

I've found annother solution compiling gimp with

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LANG="en" emerge gimp-2.2

but exporting the lang variable before lauch gimp i can have it both languages!

kalle2 · Post by **kalle2** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:00 pm

worked for me too, fine.
can someone add [SOLVED]

Conan · Post by **Conan** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:07 pm

revertex wrote:wdreinhart, thanks for that nice tip.
i just eddited my fluxbox menu, and now i can launch gimp in my native language an in english.
Gimp in english is a must have to me to easily follow the tutorials.

I've found annother solution compiling gimp with
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LANG="en" emerge gimp-2.2
but exporting the lang variable before lauch gimp i can have it both languages!

It would make more sense for you to set LINGUAS in make.conf than LANG on command line

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:40 pm

Conan wrote:
revertex wrote:wdreinhart, thanks for that nice tip.
i just eddited my fluxbox menu, and now i can launch gimp in my native language an in english.
Gimp in english is a must have to me to easily follow the tutorials.

I've found annother solution compiling gimp with
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LANG="en" emerge gimp-2.2
but exporting the lang variable before lauch gimp i can have it both languages!
It would make more sense for you to set LINGUAS in make.conf than LANG on command line

Nah, it wouldn't.

LINGUAS is a compile time var that tells portage which language support to build in certain packages that are linguas aware, that it for a more advanced localization, and not just for the usual nls settings.

For example:

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# emerge -pv openoffice

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.4  USE="cairo cups dbus firefox kde pam sound -binfilter -branding -debug -eds -gnome -gstreamer -gtk -java -ldap -odk -webdav" LINGUAS="en es -af -ar -be_BY -bg -bn -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -en_US -en_ZA -et -fa -fi -fr -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -km -ko -lt -mk -nb -nl -nn -nr -ns -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh_YU -sk -sl -sr_CS -st -sv -sw_TZ -th -tn -tr -ts -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 kB

As you see, openoffice DO HAVE this LINGUAS capabilities, while

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# emerge -pv gimp

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-gfx/gimp-2.3.12  USE="alsa jpeg lcms mmx mng png python sse svg tiff wmf -aalib (-altivec) -debug -doc -gnome -gtkhtml -pdf -smp" 0 kB

The Gimp, doesn't have them. So, LINGUAS will not affect The Gimp, in fact, you can try yourself, LC_ALL="es" or "de" or "en" or any language you want, and The Gimp will use it, you just need to speciffy it if the language that you want to use is different from your default locale setting.

In any Gimp install you get all those locales for free

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# equery f gimp | grep locale
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/locale/bg
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/da
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/de
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/el
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/es
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-libgimp.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-script-fu.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-std-plug-ins.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-tips.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/et
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/he
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/id
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/it
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@Latn
/usr/share/locale/sr@Latn/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/sr@Latn/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt
/usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo

While in a program compiled with LINGUAS awareness you only get the LINGUAS that you compiled it with:

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# equery f amarok | grep locale
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/locale/es
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/amarok.mo

So, LINGUAS is only relevant during compile time, and not when you want to run the program. As all the settings in make.conf, it only comes into scene when "emerge" is working. As you can see:

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 # echo $LINGUAS

Echoes nothing at all in a normal user or root shell.

Regards.

Gentree · Post by **Gentree** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:05 pm

also changing /etc/make.conf will affect all emerges done from now on which was clearly not what the poster was looking to do.

pink wrote:In any Gimp install you get all those locales for free

no such thing as a free lunch

look at all the disk space that uses. How about getting gimp to install just the one (or two) locales you really want.

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:44 pm

Gentree wrote:also changing /etc/make.conf will affect all emerges done from now on which was clearly not what the poster was looking to do.

pink wrote:In any Gimp install you get all those locales for free
no such thing as a free lunch look at all the disk space that uses. How about getting gimp to install just the one (or two) locales you really want.

Each .mo file is around 250 bytes, do you really think that arond 20-30 .mo files are the reason why the gimp is big in your hd?

Well, jokes appart, portage is migrating toward a more modular design, so, I bet that at some point in the future the gimp ebuild will also use linguas to decide what is to be installed, but, in any case, the locales in gimp are not a big slice of the package like they are, for example, in kde (kde-i18n package).

Of course, in the while, if someone feels like doing it, it is always possible to addapt the ebuild to do so and submit it to bugzilla

airflow · Post by **airflow** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:46 am

Hi there!

I also need to run GIMP in german language, and I tried your tips. When I try to run gimp with the environment-variables set you mention, I get the following error-message:

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airflow@aquarius ~ $ LC_ALL=de gimp-2.2

(gimp-2.2:6901): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(gimp-2.2:6901): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 48x48/mimetypes of theme Snow-Apple has no size field

airflow@aquarius ~ $ LC_ALL=de_DE gimp-2.2

(gimp-2.2:6904): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(gimp-2.2:6904): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 48x48/mimetypes of theme Snow-Apple has no size field

airflow@aquarius ~ $

Any idea on how to solve this problem? Which "C library" library is meant, and how can I modify the library?

I also tried the command i92guboj suggested to see if gimp is capable of having a german interface, and it seems so...

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airflow@aquarius ~ $ equery f gimp | grep locale
/usr/share/locale
[...]
/usr/share/locale/de
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-libgimp.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-script-fu.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-std-plug-ins.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo
[...]

Any help appreciated...
airflow

airflow · Post by **airflow** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:18 am

OK, sorry for the last question, I already solved it...

With the command "locale -a" I found out, that my locale was named differently...

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airflow@aquarius ~ $ locale -a
C
de_AT@euro
POSIX

So if I exchanged de_AT with de_AT@eure, it worked... :)

But I have another problem now, perhaps someone knows something: While it is possible to start gimp now in another language from the shell, I can't get a working menu-entry for gnome to work.

If I create a launcher with "LC_MESSAGES=de_AT@euro gimp-remote" as the command or with "LC_MESSAGES=de_AT@euro; gimp-remote" as the command, in both cases I get the error-message "Could not launch application, Failed to execute child process "LC_MESSAGES=de_AT@eure;" (No such file or directory).

As the next step i tried to create a separate launcher-script, which looks like this:

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airflow@aquarius ~ $ cat /usr/local/bin/gimp_de.sh 
#! /bin/sh
export LANGUAGE="de_AT@euro"
exec gimp-remote-2.2

Funny thing is, this script works, when I start it from the shell. But when I use it as the command of a gnome application launcher, the applications starts in englisch language again... :(

Any help appreciated, again.. :)
airflow

01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:33 am

Does the script work if you change it to this?

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#!/bin/bash
LC_ALL=de_AT@euro gimp

?

airflow · Post by **airflow** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:10 pm

Yes, this works!

Thanks a lot!
airflow