Re: How to show the same program with two different language sets?

[Asgeir Frimannsson <asgeirf redhat com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:08, Christian Persch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mercredi 23 mars 2005 Ã 09:43 +0100, Roberto a Ãcrit :
> > This is not the case. There is no LANGUAGE variable. The only one used
> > is LANG.
> >
> > Anyway, when I export LANG=en_US programs like XMMS, gqView,
> > MidnightCommander and many others _do_change language to english.
> > The problem regards only programs like Yelp or Nautilus.
>
> This is because there's only ever one instance of yelp; if you start it
> again, it only tells the existing yelp to open a new window. So I don't
> think there's a way to do this.

A way of doing it is by starting the second yelp as another user:

[asgeir localhost ~]$ LANG=no yelp &
[asgeir localhost ~]$ su - otheruser
Password:
[otheruser localhost ~]$ LANG=es yelp

cheers,
asgeir