Can't change UI language. No option "Display opera in that language"

Virtosaurus

Virtosaurus

Hi everyone.

Fresh install Kubuntu 22.04 x64 and Opera Version:91.0.4516.65 from official site. I'm going to Menu-Preferences-Preffered Language. Adding Russian, moving to top, click on three points and... no option "Display opera in that language".

Any ideas?

pankon

pankon

hi
the same problem here.
manjaro linux 21.3.7.
please help my english is bad.

frankgz34

frankgz34

hello I have problems with changing the language of opera to Spanish it does not leave me there is no option to make it change the language it is the last update because before it did leave

the-codifier

the-codifier

Re: Can't change UI language

I had the same issue when I recently installed Opera Stable on Fedora 36 KDE. My native language is spanish, so I will use this language on this tutorial. Probably it will work for all Linux distros.

Go to this route on your File Manager /usr/share/applications
In this route, you find many files with .desktop extension. These are the icons you use to open the programs. Find the Opera Browser one (usually called opera.desktop)
Right click on it and open with your favorite text editor (I use Kate in KDE)
The first section must look like these

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Opera
GenericName=Web browser
Comment=Fast and secure web browser
TryExec=opera
Exec=opera %U
Terminal=false
Icon=opera

Locate the line Exec
5. Add the text lang=your language after the word opera. Example for spanish

Exec=opera --lang=es %U

Write the --lang flag in all places where you find Exec on the file
Save the changes on file. Probably the text editor claim you for the super user (root) password. Type it.
Double click on Opera icon. Your browser now opens on the language you selected.

The reason of this is: Opera is charged with all the languages, but the instruction that launches must be declared with the flag --lang to be opened on the language you want.

I hope I have been helpful.

minho

minho

Same on Arch Linux running Gnome.
One more stupid bug on linux...

philou-69210

philou-69210

Same on Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon with Version:92.0.4561.43.

mauermer

mauermer @the-codifier

@the-codifier

The same here with Kubuntu 22.10. Thank you very much, it worked.
Regards from Germany.

mauermer

pmG4469

pmG4469

I have the same issue, I am on Fedora Linux 37 and I downloaded the opera-stable_94.0.4606.38_amd64.rpm installation file

saulodebaco

saulodebaco

Same here. POP OS 22.04 LTS. The trick suggested by @the-codifier did not work.

edsonmartim

edsonmartim

Hi

The problem continues on Opera-Stable Version: 94.0.4606.76 for Linux. Tested on VM in several Linux distributions and with the same problem and not changing the requested language. keeping only the language in English

Can the developers of this browser fix this problem, gentlemen forum administrators?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

I did some testing. "Display Opera in this language" option isn't available in Chromium-based browsers on Linux (like Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, and Opera). It's available on the Windows versions though.

With that said, on Linux, you have to use the --lang=code command-line switch.

After adding German to opera://settings/languages and moving it to the top, I closed Opera and tested --lang=de with Opera and it works as expected. The UI was in German. This also worked for me in Vivaldi. I couldn't get it to work for Chrome and Chromium though for some reason. I tested on Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1.

On a side, I tried setting app_locale to de in the "Local State" file in the profile folder, which seems to be what Windows does for the "Display Opera in this language" option, but that didn't help. So, I guess it's indeed required to use the --lang command-line switch.

saulodebaco

saulodebaco @burnout426

@burnout426 Many tks, friend. The option --lang=pt-BR worked like a charm!

To make it easier I have added this to file /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop/
Exec=opera --lang=pt-BR %U

scitari

scitari

Heja,

The Opera browser I have running under Linux (Linuxfs, Ubuntu-based), is missing the option to change browser/interface language.

The option I have with Opera under Windows 10 (= selecting browser language in "preferred languages" within settings) seems to be missing.

Google Search didn't really reveal promising answers.

What do I need to do to change Opera language?

Best regards
Christian

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @scitari

@scitari Check the whole topic above.

scitari

scitari @leocg

@leocg Yes, thanks, did, I understand the workaround, but in my case Opera is set-up in a snap, and editing files as root in a read-only environment is actually not really user-friendly.

Having the same browser setting in the Linux version as in the Windows version would likely help adoption by other users. Just a gentle nudge to Opera developers.

Best
Christian

reinaldofox

reinaldofox

Opera cares so much about filling the app with nasty and unnecessary things and doesn't pay attention to such a basic and crucial thing.

Saragoo

Saragoo

OK, there is something that may work.

I opened my filemanager (Nemo or Thunar or ...) with the terminal (sudo nemo) and then i go to /usr/share/applications
Right-click on Opera and open the attributes menu (in German "Eigenschaften", i do not know if the translation is correct).
Change the command opera %U into opera --lang=de (de for german, choose your language)
Close this. Now Opera should open in the correct language. I hope it works.

Saragoo

Saragoo

Tried to post a solution here, but Opera Forums doesn't want to publish it. Only thing Opera cares is to place promotion into the Browser.

philou-69210

philou-69210 @Saragoo

@saragoo Hello, this workaround was already post here. Developers of Opera don't take care of their Linux Users. It's a shame.

HomeStudiocz

HomeStudiocz

yes this work mee use Endevvour OS and only rewirite to

Exec=opera --lang=cs %U save it and run opera and opera run with my native language czech