[Techtalk] Need Suggestions: How To Multi-Language ?

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:05:51AM +0100, Figaro wrote:
> Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > A. Don't use a graphical login at all.  That is, turn off gdm/kdm/xdm
> > (whichever one you're using).
> > Log in to the console as User A, start X by hand with xinit or startx.
> > Ctrl-Alt-F2; log in to this next console as User B;
> > start X by hand with display set to :1.0 rather than :0.0
> Okay. I could just ctrl-atl-F2; login then issue $startx; then choose
> the wm environment (I usually use e-17 or fluxbox). in theory this
> should allow one to have the original en_US.utf8 on F7 (:0.0),
> uk_UA.utf8 on F8 (:1.0), ko_KR.ytf8 on F9 (:2.0).
> Is this correct?

You would need to choose the wm environment before you did startx,
because running X with startx doesn't give you a gui login manager, it
just starts X; you would need to set up an .xinitrc or .xclients file to
tell X what applications to run, *including* the window manager.
 
> > 
> > Switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8
> >
> 
> Now where to start to config. the individual user accounts. I assume
> that one can issue $ update-locale and select the specific one as that
> user, then open OO.org and config. it from the options menus etc..
> I'll need to check out the keyboard mapping  (likely using clear key
> overlays for my stock SGI qwerty_US keyboard).

I would have thought it would make more sense to set up the different
users so that specific users always had a specific locale, so you
wouldn't have to keep selecting the locale.  And likewise simpler to set
up a different keyboard mapping for each specific user.
 
> > B.  Use qingy rather than gdm/kdm/xdm as your login manager.
> > http://qingy.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> 
> I'll certainly check this out. I have to use a commercial X-server (XiG
> Accelerated-X Platinum Work Station X-server) due to special CAD/SIM
> work and OpenGL work... so there may be some hurdles to get the
> configuration set up correctly.. but should not be "un-doable".
 
I don't know if you would have problems with that or not.
 
Kathryn Andersen
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