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

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    • reinaldofox
      reinaldofox last edited by leocg

      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.

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      • Saragoo
        Saragoo last edited by

        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.

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        • Saragoo
          Saragoo last edited by

          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.

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          • philou-69210
            philou-69210 @Saragoo last edited by

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

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            • HomeStudiocz
              HomeStudiocz last edited by

              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

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              • kocis2023
                kocis2023 @philou-69210 last edited by

                @philou-69210 In Artix with openrc, it was enough to click PM on the Opera icon on the desktop and in the attributes of this icon, complete the following command: exec=opera --lang=pl %U.
                And it works. It turned out that there was no need to enter the system.

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                • philou-69210
                  philou-69210 @kocis2023 last edited by

                  @kocis2023 Hi Kocis, it was enough for me to edit the application file each time Opera release an update. I imported my bookmarks in Firefox and uninstalled Opera from all my devices.

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                  • trsword52
                    trsword52 last edited by

                    Create create folders, select edit launcher to provide desktop.
                    Type opera %U --lang=(your lang) in the command line and save it.
                    With this shortcut you have created on your desktop, the transponders are opened in Opera Your Lang
                    Example:
                    Type opera %U --lang=tr

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                    • josegjimenez
                      josegjimenez last edited by

                      Greetings to all, I solved it by renaming the file en-US.pak to en-US_bak.pak and then I renamed the file es.pak to en-US.pak and I now have opera in Spanish

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                      • josegjimenez
                        josegjimenez @josegjimenez last edited by

                        @josegjimenez ubuntu:

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                        • bilalerdiyildiz
                          bilalerdiyildiz last edited by

                          Hello,
                          I use Fedora 38 Workspace (Gnome). I have tried all the solutions here, but there is no solution. Opera One is still in default language. Is there any other method other than these that I should do?

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                          • tobiasitalo
                            tobiasitalo last edited by leocg

                            [Hello,
                            Neither in the stable version nor in the dev version am I successful in carrying out the procedures I found on the internet (and those in this forum as well).]

                            [For example, access the settings and set Portuguese as the preferred language.]

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                            [My Operating System is in Portuguese natively.

                            Below are the versions I'm currently using of the OS and Opera (with all updates available to date):]

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                            • tobiasitalo
                              tobiasitalo @tobiasitalo last edited by

                              @tobiasitalo

                              Acabei de revisar as configurações de região e idioma e estão todas em português do Brasil.

                              [I just reviewed the region and language settings and they are all in Brazilian Portuguese.]

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                              • LogoJorge
                                LogoJorge @josegjimenez last edited by

                                @josegjimenez this method is very good, thank you. but some distributions have different location
                                for Mx Linux (debian based) path is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/localization/

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                                • HomeStudiocz
                                  HomeStudiocz @LogoJorge last edited by

                                  @logojorge me change language in menu metod. when opera update everytime my nation language Snímek obrazovky pořízený 2024-01-20 17-39-02.png

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                                  • smitharro
                                    smitharro @the-codifier last edited by

                                    @the-codifier said in Can't change UI language. No option "Display opera in that language":

                                    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.

                                    1. Go to this route on your File Manager /usr/share/applications
                                    2. 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)
                                    3. Right click on it and open with your favorite text editor (I use Kate in KDE)
                                    4. 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
                                    
                                    1. Write the --lang flag in all places where you find Exec on the file
                                    2. Save the changes on file. Probably the text editor claim you for the super user (root) password. Type it.
                                    3. 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.

                                    Thanks, though the topic is old, in my case it was helpfull and it worked!

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                                    • LukKi-One
                                      LukKi-One last edited by

                                      Hi

                                      it's much easier as discribed.
                                      In this case Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.3
                                      Opera Flatpak Version

                                      Got to your Startmenu all your way to the entry of the opera browser
                                      right-click it an go on properties and add "-lang=Your Language ID"
                                      as you can see in the screenshot below and your are done without messing with folders

                                      Bildschirmfoto vom 2024-05-26 13-57-46.png

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                                      • rewers79
                                        rewers79 last edited by

                                        On Ubuntu:

                                        • close opera

                                        • open terminal

                                        cp /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
                                        
                                        nano ~/.local/share/applications/opera.desktop
                                        
                                        • change the line:
                                          Exec=opera %U
                                          to:
                                          Exec=opera --lang=[language_code] %U
                                          where: [language_code] is example: pl

                                        • save and close the file

                                        • open opera 😉

                                        • enjoy

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                                        • Raffidafi
                                          Raffidafi last edited by

                                          same hier !?!?

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                                          • pici1251
                                            pici1251 last edited by

                                            I found a solution for my environment:

                                            • I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
                                            • Opera rel. 114.0.5282.21 (snap version)
                                              I added --lang=it (my preferred language) to the command line used by opera launcher
                                              Opera.dektop2024-09-27 11-43-49.png
                                              Great: it works fine!!!😁 😁 😁

                                            Now I will test Ubuntu 24.04.4 over my laptop and over VMVirtualMachine, but I'm optimist ...

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