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Cyclepiet · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Netherlands

During start-up of the live-CD of AntiX, I set the language to Dutch. After installing the language is English. Amongst others, I looked in settings and Admin/Tools, but could not find were setting to Dutch?

eriefisher · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject:

Try opening a terminal and as root:

Cyclepiet · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Netherlands

Dear eriefisher,
I am a starter with antiX and know nothing about it. I had to say, installing (on my IBM ThinkPad 1GHz, with 128MB ram and 30GB HD) was easy and even my wireless card (Asus WL100G) worked direcly.

I did as you said before and i.s.o. one (NL), it looked, if a lot of languages became installed. After restarting the comp. the language was not changed. So I think I did something wrong, or I had to do more?

anticapitalista · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject:

Welcome to antiX, Cyclepiet.

I think the choose language option may be a bit misleading. It comes with the Mepis installer and I think it will automatically set kde for you language. As antiX uses fluxbox and icewm, it cannot set the language settings.

You can set your keyboard to use NL and type docs etc in Abiword etc, by doing the following.

Menu->Settings->Config-User
Select Edit Fluxbox Menu
Scroll down to line 454 (Keyboard) and add this line in the section.
[exec] (Dutch) {setxkbmap nl}

Save file and now you should be able to use Dutch in docs.
(You may need/wish to install msttcorefonts to get NL to show up correctly)
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Cyclepiet · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Netherlands

Dear Anticapitalista,

My keyboard settings are o.k., but what I want is the Dutch language as standard for the system and program's (if possible).
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Cyclepiet

IBM ThinkPad T23, PIII, 1GHz, 128MB, HD 30GB, WiFi (Asus WL-100g), antiX.