How to add/set language in GNOME?

Desktop Environments
1

Installed GNOME DE. Liking it so far, except my language is set to finnish, which I hate. I like to use english as my system language. I tried switching through GNOME’s settings tabs, but there was only the option for finnish. I couldn’t add english.

How do I add other languages to choose from?

2

Welcome @His_Turdness,

to change it check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

You need to modify the file /etc/locale.gen
Uncomment (erase) the # to the languages You want

then run as root

locale-gen

restart x and now you can chose more languages in region and language in Gnome.

3

I tried setting locale once before and it fcked up my system. For example my plex server would no longer work. So I don’t really want to do that. Is there any other way to change the language only and not mess with locale?

4

check all this thread, You will know to use your languages with success :

5

Open “Settings” and go to the “Region and Language” tab

Settings

If this works for what you want to do, this is the easiest.

Pudge

6

First thing I tried. Doesn’t show any other languages.

7

Could give the result from ?

locale

and

localectl status
8

Edited language manually (not locale), crossed fingers and ran locale-gen as sudo. I was then enable to set my language as english! No issues with any services either, which is great. Could get used to gnome, though it’s a bit annoying that some basic functionality has to be enabled through extensions. But I’ll forgive it cause the DE looks so clean and works well.

9

Great you did it ! :rocket: