On Friday 21 November 2003 03:57, Chris Hewitt wrote: > gh wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I am trying to install Chinese simplified support for a colleague in FC 1 > > but I have some issues. > > > >I need an English desktop with occasional Chinese text input for kmail, OO > >etc.. Now my colleague has to change the "language" (system > >setttings-->language, with root password!!), logout and log back in. > >- How can I avoid the language/user change? > > ----------------snip------------------------- > If doing a graphical login (runlevel 5) then the login screen has > options at the bottom, one of which is to select the language for this > session. I selected simplified Chinese and logged in. Does this help? > > Chris It does help a bit. Thank you. But the user still needs go "all Chinese" or " "all English" and I am trying to avoid that. Also, like I posted recently, miniChinput does not seem to very efficient have you tried something different (SCIM or XSIM or fcitx)? gh