Quick Start Guide
not belonging to your desktop framework are not aected by this change and
may still appear in the language that was set in YaST.
Temporarily Switching Languages for One Application Only
You can also run a single application in another language (that has already been
installed with YaST). To do so, start it from the command line by specifying the
language code as described in Section 11.1.3, “Switching Languages for Individ-
ual Applications” (page 148).
11.1.1 Modifying System Languages with YaST
YaST knows two dierent language 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
Install secondary languages to make your system multilingual. Languages installed
as secondary languages can be selected manually for a specic situation. For
example, use a secondary language to start an application in a certain language
in order to do word processing in this language.
Before installing additional languages, determine which of them should be the default
system language (primary language) after you have installed them.
To access the YaST language module, start YaST and click System > Language. Al-
ternatively, start the Languages dialog directly by running yast2 language & as user
root from a command line.
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