Branch: refs/heads/master Author: Luiz Bettoni 72033323+luizbettoni@users.noreply.github.com Committer: GitHub noreply@github.com Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:35:06 UTC Commit: a653b9072b5b66ab4938334f5343282038eccc69 https://github.com/geany/www.geany.org/commit/a653b9072b5b66ab4938334f534328...

Log Message: ----------- Update tips about change language on unix (#28)

Modified Paths: -------------- page_content/documentation/faq.md

Modified: page_content/documentation/faq.md 18 lines changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -149,10 +149,20 @@ Simply start Geany like this: and of course, change "C" to your language code (see above) or set your locale specific environment variables accordingly.

-If your system supports launcher shortcuts (for example, `.desktop` files), -then Geany's shortcut can be updated (created a new one) to add the `LANG` -setting as shown above. In case of `.desktop` files, this usually goes into -the `Exec` line. +If your system supports launcher shortcuts then Geany's shortcut can be updated +to add language setting. For example, in +[modern `.desktop` files](https://developer.gnome.org/desktop-entry-spec/#exec-variables), +this usually goes into the `Exec` line: + + Exec=/bin/sh -c "LANGUAGE=en_IN /usr/bin/geany %F" + +As alternative, you can create a shell script in any directory in your `$PATH` to +override the default `geany` binary. As example, one can create a file at +`~/.local/bin/geany` (remember to make it executable): + + #!/bin/sh + export LANGUAGE=en_US + exec /usr/bin/geany $@

## I get build errors after updating from Git, why?

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