Recently i install Solus Mate, but when I want to change my whole system language, I can't find any GUI app and tool to make the change. I have known that is a GUI for change Region & Language in Gnome and Budgie edition, why it's not exist in Mate??? Also my setting Time and Date, Shared Folders in Control Center give me an error dialog when i click to them. Someone can give me an idea how to change System Language with any GUI or CLI? Thanks.
Can't change System Region & Language in Solus Mate???
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dinhnam You can use localectl in the terminal:
Copy the language that you want in this list:
localectl list-localesPaste in this command (vietnamese language):
localectl set-locale LANG="vi_VN.utf8"Reboot
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dinhnam I can't find any GUI app and tool to make the change. I have known that is a GUI for change Region & Language in Gnome and Budgie edition, why it's not exist in Mate???
Because Gnome 3 provides settings application GUI (Budgie uses the same app) while MATE which is a fork of Gnome 2 does not. Some distributions still provide the old Gnome 2 settings GUI but it's not developed anymore for a decade and needs to be patched just to keep on running with a risk of breakage each time a component it relies upon is updated. This is not our vision of a modern operating system and we took the decision to deprecate it (better having nothing rather than something broken).
So until MATE team or another talented developer makes a graphical application for this, the command line is the only option.
So how can i open these Administration App without error dialog?
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kyrios Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, Mate is not for beginners.
[deleted] Mate is not for beginners.
That's a personal opinion coming out of nowhere. Regional settings are set at installation time based on the choices of the user. Even when people move to a different country it's rare they update the regional settings because their native language remains the same, because they are used to their keyboard layout (not even mentioning that you can't change the keyboard on a laptop, etc).
Even if you ask some windows noobs how to change the regional settings, most of them will probably not even know and won't care at all.
MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 that was created when its development was discontinued. Initially, they forked the gnome-system-tools, but they discontinued it years ago (last was version 1.8 and current version is 1.22), do you really think that MATE would remain popular if it was only usable by advanced users ?
Last but not least, you have to know that this UI tool was quite limited. For example, if you want to have your TIME locale as English UK but you want to have your MONETARY, MEASUREMENT, ... as another locale, you couldn't do it with the GUI. Changing the locale post install, it's a one time command to run in a terminal and then you forget about it forever!
And if the aim is just to change the language, as mentionned on this blog post, we're going to introduce a new tool for user management (which will allow to change the language per user), but it hasn't reached a suffiscient manturity level yet:
Due to various issues with broken user management, we have decided to temporarily remove the packages responsible for providing this functionality, which are
gnome-system-tools,system-tools-backend, andliboobs. We are actively working with the developer of an alternative tool to resolve various issues (such as avatar and language setting) and we are optimistic we’ll have a solution to deliver to our users. When this tooling is considered ready for production, we will deploy it automatically to our MATE users.
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kyrios An Asian person installs Solus Mate in his own language. This person also wants to type in his own language. But there is a problem ... IBus, on Solus Mate, only works if the system is in English.
Will the most of Asians find the cause of the problem? Will they be able to change the language to English? Do 2 billion Asians speak English? No, no and no!!! So for Asians, BYE BYE Solus (Mate)...
My personal opinion comes out of nowhere? Maybe you don't care about Asians...
Please, open your mind.
kyrios [deleted] For me it's not too inconvenient, so i can use English as my system language, and typing with Vietnamese IBus. But can i delete safely these Administration App like Network, Shared Folders, Date and Time... because these app seem don't work on Solus Mate, just a "An unknown error occurred" dialog. This error make me a little annoying?!
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dinhnam Sorry, I don't know. Honestly, Mate DE seems to be given up. Why you don't install Solus with Gnome or Budgie? (even if the applet "Keyboard Layout" doesn't work with IBus on Budgie)
[deleted] So I install Solus MATE in Japanese and I select Japanese keyboard layout (by the way the installer has nothing to do with the desktop environment, it's the same for all Solus editions)
I reboot, Solus is in Japanese
IBus is installed out of the box, but indeed the keyboard remains in qwerty.
I had to struggle a bit. To my defense, I don't speak Japanese and it's the very first time I install an non-Latin language. I installed ibus-anthy and after a reboot, I could switch the inputs with super+space.
It took me less than 30 minutes including setting up the VM and installing Solus. The system has never been set to english (I don't know why you say it only works on Solus Mate if the system is in english). I didn't even had to use the command line. So I don't understand where is the problem ???
The only tricky part is with IBus, especially since I had no idea of what written on the screen, but I know it's not something specific to Solus and in particular to Solus Mate !
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kyrios I tested Solus Mate on VM in my office and on my PC at home. Today, twice I installed Solus Mate on VM exactly the same as you. I don't know... but it doesn't work. You are a magician!
I switch in English with localectl: IBus works perfectly...
[deleted] Tbqh, as I said I had to struggle with IBus, especially since I can't read Japanese, so maybe it's beginner's luck but at least it shows there is an easy way to get it working.
Do you know if you have to same issue on other linux MATE edition (other than Solus) ?
With Solus Budgie & Gnome it works fine, you don't have to switch to English to get IBus working fine, do you?
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[deleted] uhm i really love Budgie, but i want a lightest DE among 3 DE that Solus offer to user, and of course this is Mate, lightweight, stable, but a bit ancient and outdate package. I recently try out KDE Plasma in KDE Neon, it really cool, light and fast, i'm so sock because people conventionally say KDE Plasma almost heavy like Gnome, and i don't think so with Plasma 5, it's lightweight as hell compare with Ubuntu Gnome on my hardware, despite of it has many animation and effect. I straight forward eagly the final .iso of SOLUS PLASMA, i think it will be the best combination of an OS and a DE. Keeping the good work Solus Dev Team!