How to locale my MATE to german language

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Nejat
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How to locale my MATE to german language

Post by Nejat »

Hello,

I can type all my german keys verry well for example in the terminal and in all other applications such as libere office.
But I could not find out how to change the menu names in MATE task bar and in all other applications as well to german.
Everything appears in english language.
For me personally it is no problem, but I want to add local users for example for my mum and dad.
They don't speak english :-)

I searched in google but could not find a solution for Ghost BSD.
So can anybody help us?

Infos:
Ghost BSD 10.1
Mate 1.10.2

Best regards
Nejat
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ericbsd
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Re: How to locale my MATE to german language

Post by ericbsd »

The best place to change that setting is in /usr/local/etc/gdm/locale.conf

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LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
In the terminal locale -a give you all the otion you can use.
ericbsd@eric /etc> locale -a
C
POSIX
af_ZA.ISO8859-1
af_ZA.ISO8859-15
af_ZA.UTF-8
am_ET.UTF-8
be_BY.CP1131
be_BY.CP1251
be_BY.ISO8859-5
be_BY.UTF-8
bg_BG.CP1251
bg_BG.UTF-8
ca_AD.ISO8859-1
ca_AD.ISO8859-15
ca_AD.UTF-8
ca_ES.ISO8859-1
ca_ES.ISO8859-15
ca_ES.UTF-8
ca_FR.ISO8859-1
ca_FR.ISO8859-15
ca_FR.UTF-8
ca_IT.ISO8859-1
ca_IT.ISO8859-15
ca_IT.UTF-8
cs_CZ.ISO8859-2
cs_CZ.UTF-8
da_DK.ISO8859-1
da_DK.ISO8859-15
da_DK.UTF-8
de_AT.ISO8859-1
de_AT.ISO8859-15
de_AT.UTF-8
de_CH.ISO8859-1
de_CH.ISO8859-15
de_CH.UTF-8
de_DE.ISO8859-1
de_DE.ISO8859-15
de_DE.UTF-8
el_GR.ISO8859-7
el_GR.UTF-8
en_AU.ISO8859-1
en_AU.ISO8859-15
en_AU.US-ASCII
en_AU.UTF-8
en_CA.ISO8859-1
en_CA.ISO8859-15
en_CA.US-ASCII
en_CA.UTF-8
en_GB.ISO8859-1
en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_GB.US-ASCII
en_GB.UTF-8
en_IE.UTF-8
en_NZ.ISO8859-1
en_NZ.ISO8859-15
en_NZ.US-ASCII
en_NZ.UTF-8
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.US-ASCII
en_US.UTF-8
es_ES.ISO8859-1
es_ES.ISO8859-15
es_ES.UTF-8
et_EE.ISO8859-15
et_EE.UTF-8
eu_ES.ISO8859-1
eu_ES.ISO8859-15
eu_ES.UTF-8
fi_FI.ISO8859-1
fi_FI.ISO8859-15
fi_FI.UTF-8
fr_BE.ISO8859-1
fr_BE.ISO8859-15
fr_BE.UTF-8
fr_CA.ISO8859-1
fr_CA.ISO8859-15
fr_CA.UTF-8
fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.ISO8859-15
fr_CH.UTF-8
fr_FR.ISO8859-1
fr_FR.ISO8859-15
fr_FR.UTF-8
he_IL.UTF-8
hi_IN.ISCII-DEV
hr_HR.ISO8859-2
hr_HR.UTF-8
hu_HU.ISO8859-2
hu_HU.UTF-8
hy_AM.ARMSCII-8
hy_AM.UTF-8
is_IS.ISO8859-1
is_IS.ISO8859-15
is_IS.UTF-8
it_CH.ISO8859-1
it_CH.ISO8859-15
it_CH.UTF-8
it_IT.ISO8859-1
it_IT.ISO8859-15
it_IT.UTF-8
ja_JP.SJIS
ja_JP.UTF-8
ja_JP.eucJP
kk_KZ.PT154
kk_KZ.UTF-8
ko_KR.CP949
ko_KR.UTF-8
ko_KR.eucKR
la_LN.ISO8859-1
la_LN.ISO8859-13
la_LN.ISO8859-15
la_LN.ISO8859-2
la_LN.ISO8859-4
la_LN.US-ASCII
lt_LT.ISO8859-13
lt_LT.ISO8859-4
lt_LT.UTF-8
lv_LV.ISO8859-13
lv_LV.UTF-8
mn_MN.UTF-8
nb_NO.ISO8859-1
nb_NO.ISO8859-15
nb_NO.UTF-8
nl_BE.ISO8859-1
nl_BE.ISO8859-15
nl_BE.UTF-8
nl_NL.ISO8859-1
nl_NL.ISO8859-15
nl_NL.UTF-8
nn_NO.ISO8859-1
nn_NO.ISO8859-15
nn_NO.UTF-8
no_NO.ISO8859-1
no_NO.ISO8859-15
no_NO.UTF-8
pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.UTF-8
pt_BR.ISO8859-1
pt_BR.UTF-8
pt_PT.ISO8859-1
pt_PT.ISO8859-15
pt_PT.UTF-8
ro_RO.ISO8859-2
ro_RO.UTF-8
ru_RU.CP1251
ru_RU.CP866
ru_RU.ISO8859-5
ru_RU.KOI8-R
ru_RU.UTF-8
sk_SK.ISO8859-2
sk_SK.UTF-8
sl_SI.ISO8859-2
sl_SI.UTF-8
sr_YU.ISO8859-2
sr_YU.ISO8859-5
sr_YU.UTF-8
sv_SE.ISO8859-1
sv_SE.ISO8859-15
sv_SE.UTF-8
tr_TR.ISO8859-9
tr_TR.UTF-8
uk_UA.CP1251
uk_UA.ISO8859-5
uk_UA.KOI8-U
uk_UA.UTF-8
zh_CN.GB18030
zh_CN.GB2312
zh_CN.GBK
zh_CN.UTF-8
zh_CN.eucCN
zh_HK.Big5HKSCS
zh_HK.UTF-8
zh_TW.Big5
zh_TW.UTF-8
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