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

[kocis2023]

kocis2023 @philou-69210 zuletzt editiert von

@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.

[philou-69210]

philou-69210 @kocis2023 zuletzt editiert von

@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.

[trsword52]

trsword52 zuletzt editiert von

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

[josegjimenez]

josegjimenez zuletzt editiert von

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

[josegjimenez]

josegjimenez @josegjimenez zuletzt editiert von

@josegjimenez ubuntu:

[bilalerdiyildiz]

bilalerdiyildiz zuletzt editiert von

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?

[tobiasitalo]

tobiasitalo zuletzt editiert von 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.]

[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):]

[tobiasitalo]

tobiasitalo @tobiasitalo zuletzt editiert von

@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.]

[LogoJorge]

LogoJorge @josegjimenez zuletzt editiert von

@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/

[HomeStudiocz]

HomeStudiocz @LogoJorge zuletzt editiert von

@logojorge me change language in menu metod. when opera update everytime my nation language

[smitharro]

smitharro @the-codifier zuletzt editiert von

@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

6. Write the --lang flag in all places where you find Exec on the file
7. Save the changes on file. Probably the text editor claim you for the super user (root) password. Type it.
8. 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!

[LukKi-One]

LukKi-One zuletzt editiert von

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

[rewers79]

rewers79 zuletzt editiert von

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

[Raffidafi]

Raffidafi zuletzt editiert von

same hier !?!?

[pici1251]

pici1251 zuletzt editiert von

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
  
  Great: it works fine!!!

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

[pici1251]

pici1251 zuletzt editiert von

I just tested over VMVirtalBox - 24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat) 64-bit:

OK!!! it works

Bye

[yokoopera]

yokoopera @pici1251 zuletzt editiert von

@pici1251

many thanks!

I edited the file with an editor and was able to change the language.

/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/opera_opera.desktop

[rewers79]

rewers79 @yokoopera zuletzt editiert von

@yokoopera - always work on a copy of the activator

cp /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/opera_opera.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/