Hi,
is there a way to run Chromium in another language ?
( Equivalent instruction of ‘env LANGUAGE=es chromium-browser’ when Chromium is installed with apt)
Thanks
Yes, the same thing should work with the snap:
env LANGUAGE=es chromium
(tested with es and zh-CN).
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Doesn’t work here…
Chromium keeps the default language settings even launched this way
Can you share details about your OS, version, desktop environment?
Do other apps behave as you expect when you set LANGUAGE like this?
chromium 89.0.4350.4 latest/edge
snap version
snap 2.48+git661.g2997c48
snapd 2.48+git661.g2997c48
series 16
ubuntu 20.10
kernel 5.8.0-33-generic
Do other apps behave as you expect when you set LANGUAGE like this?
Any app installed with apt Doesn’t work with apps installed with snap
I just tested again, this time with snapd and chromium from the edge channel, to mimick your environment, but this still works as expected.
What is your desktop environment? Does this affect all snaps, or just chromium?
gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Not all snaps affected
Works with keepassxc
Doesn’t work with telegram-desktop & chromium
Is it possible that Chromium and Telegram Desktop were already running at the time you tried them? A number of applications implement a “single instance” mode, where running the program a second time just asks the original invocation to open a new window. It’s quite likely that things like the LANGUAGE environment variable won’t be communicated to the original process.
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No they weren’t running
Sorry, I hadn’t checked properly
The following process was still running:
/snap/chromium/1434/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome
killed it
Now ‘env LANGUAGE=es’ chromium is working fine…
However it does not work for telegram-desktop
Perhaps due to the fact that telegram has a built-in language selection.
I don’t know if this is a rule for applications installed with snap but simply quitting an application is apparently not enough, you have to go and check if other processes related to this application are still in progress
I don’t think this is at all related to whether the app is packaged as a snap or not.
An application like Telegram is likely to have a mode to run in the background when you close its window, since it needs to be running to notice when the user receives messages.
Not any process is running when Telegram closed:
ps -d | grep -i telegram
Chromium on the other hand, even closed:
ps -d | grep -i chrome
130180 ? 00:09:02 chrome
130253 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130254 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130256 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130275 ? 00:11:47 chrome
130278 ? 00:02:43 chrome
130282 ? 00:00:01 chrome
130324 ? 00:01:03 chrome
130377 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130432 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130445 ? 00:00:40 chrome
130451 ? 00:00:31 chrome
130471 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130472 ? 00:00:37 chrome
130473 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130504 ? 00:00:02 chrome
130516 ? 00:00:00 chrome
130526 ? 00:00:01 chrome
130542 ? 00:00:02 chrome
130547 ? 00:00:14 chrome
130555 ? 00:00:24 chrome
130569 ? 00:00:32 chrome
134923 ? 00:00:21 chrome
190706 ? 00:00:00 chrome
190789 ? 00:00:00 chromeDo you happen to have the preference to keep chromium webapps running in the background enabled? That’s the first option in chrome://settings/system, and if it’s on it would explain why you still have those processes running even after closing chromium.
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Do you mean this:
Windows and Linux
To close background apps when you close all Chrome tabs, follow these steps:
- In Chrome, at the top right, click More
.
- At the bottom, click Show advanced settings .
- In the “System” section, uncheck the box next to “Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed.”
You’re right, it was activated I will deactivate and recheck
Don’t know if it has something to do with this: Default Chromium fonts are missing after snapd has been updated - #6 by donjoe
That was it…
No more process in the background
Waiting for next snapd update to check if this helps with the problem of default fonts vanishing
No change after last snapd update…