Re: Adding new language/locale to system via a graphical interface

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 03:29:06PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> 
> 
> On തി, ജനു 3 2022 at 12:09:10 രാവിലെ +0200 +0200, Peter Pentchev
> <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 02:59:26AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > >  Hi,
> > > 
> > >  I'm looking for a way to add a new locale/language to system from
> > > gnome
> > >  (think about gnome on mobile like Purism Librem 5 or Pine Phone). I
> > > can do
> > >  that from a terminal by running dpkg-reconfigure locales but want
> > > to provide
> > >  an easier option to users. Is there a way to force gtk interface of
> > > debconf
> > >  and launch it from graphical interface? In Ubuntu, there is
> > > separate add
> > >  language tool which can add new languages.
> > 
> > The debconf(7) manual page suggests that setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome
> > after installing the libgtk3-perl package ought to work, and it seems to
> > work for me:
> > 
> >   sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome dpkg-reconfigure locales
> > 
> > ...brings up a GTK+ interface.
> > 
> 
> Thanks! I need to run xhost + to be able to launch this. Is there another
> way to lauch this graphically without having to run xhost +. May be
> something using policykit?

If you drop the "env" in that command, then the XAUTHORITY environment
variable will be retained and you shouldn't need to muck about with X
authorization.

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