Konsole in English

[Billie Erin Walsh]

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>> You appear to have snipped out:
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>> "Second, if you do so (either way), it will affect the whole KDE session
>> for that user."
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>> That is why it won't work (or might not work).  But, it doesn't explain
>> why that is (or might be) true.
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>> If you read the 'Fine Man Page',
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>> "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
>> non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and
>> executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After
>> reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and
>> ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the
>> first one that exists and is readable."
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>> "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
>> reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists."
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>> You would think that it should work.  However, it is also common
>> practice for ".bash_profile" to change that.
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>> Fedora 10 "/etc/skel/.bash_profile" (the default):
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>> # .bash_profile
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>> # Get the aliases and functions
>> if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
>>        . ~/.bashrc
>> fi
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>> # User specific environment and startup programs
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>> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
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>> export PATH
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>> It is this that would make it not work.  Now it is possible that your
>> distro doesn't have the code that sources ".bashrc" from
>> ".bash_profile", but I don't like to suggest that people should make
>> such changes to their distros.  The script will work for everyone, and
>> it is really the better way to do it since changing environment
>> variables in ".bashrc" can cause problems whether or not your distro
>> does this.
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> I have had lots of problems when fiddling with the language settings
> in the dofiles, the effects seem to appear in places that I did not
> expect them (like Thunderbird). So I am glad for this Konsole-specific
> solution.
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