Cannot change language in KDE plasma 5

English Applications
#1

Hello everybody,

I have accidentally changed my language settings to polish either by installing aspell-pl or by adding a keyboard or by adding it to translated languages. I have removed it from the translated languages, deinstalled aspell-pl but the menu is still in polish.

when I go to ./confing/plasma-localerc I see the following.


[Formats]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[Translations]
LANGUAGE=en_US
~                                                                                  
~

Please help me to change the settings back to english.

#2

Installing aspell-pl or adding a keyboard should not change the language.

But that do you mean with “adding it to translated languages”?
Where did you add what?

I have removed it from the translated languages, deinstalled aspell-pl but the menu is still in polish.

Which menu?

when I go to ./confing/plasma-localerc I see the following.

[Formats]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[Translations]
LANGUAGE=en_US
~
~

This looks ok, and should lead to an english user session.

What does “Configure Desktop”->Regional Settings->Translations show?
Are you actually using Plasma5, or rather something else like GNOME?

And just to be sure: you need to logout and login again (or reboot) for new language settings to take effect.

#3

Well the translations say “American English.”

I just logged in and suddenly the KDE menu is back in English however, the KDE Launcher still shows names of KDE applications in Polish.

Thanks

#4

Try running “kbuildsycoca5” as user. That should rebuild the menu cache.