Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual page 194

of your desktop using the desktop's control center. After X has been restarted, your
entire desktop reflects your new choice of language. Applications not belonging
to your desktop framework are not affected by this change and may still appear in
the language that was set in YaST.
Temporarily Switch Languages for One Application Only
To run a single application in another language (that has already been installed
with YaST), use one of the following commands:
• LANG=de_DE application to start any standard X application or GNOME
• KDE_LANG=de application to start any KDE application in German. For
13.1.1 Installing Additional System
The main language was selected during installation (see
(page 98)) and keyboard and time zone settings were adjusted. However, you can install
additional languages on your system and determine which of the different languages
installed should be taken as the default. Before installing additional languages, determine
which of them should be activated after you install it. YaST knows two different lan-
guage categories:
Primary Language
The primary language set in YaST applies to the entire system, including YaST
and the desktop environment. This language is used whenever available unless you
manually specify another language.
Secondary Languages
Secondary languages are languages selected manually for a specific situation. For
example, use a secondary language to start an application in a certain language, for
example, to do word processing in this language.
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application in German. For other languages, use the appropriate language code.
Get a list of all language codes available using the locale -av command.
other languages, use the appropriate language code.
Languages
Section 6.7, "Welcome"