Change GIMP to German in Windows 7
GIMP is a free drawing and image manipulation program. It was originally published in English - but not everyone can simply work in another language. It's good that you can easily switch the language to German under Windows 7.
The easiest way to get GIMP Windows 7 to German is to change the environment variables for the program so that the program is displayed in German. This change can be made with just a few clicks.
Change the language of the GIMP
- Click on the start symbol in the system tray and then right click on the entry "My Computer". Select the "Properties" entry in the context menu that appears.
- A new window will open. Go to the "Advanced" tab under "System Properties" and select the "Environment Variables" button.
- Click the "New" button and enter "LANG" as the name for the new variable and the desired language as the value - in this case "de" for German.
Start GIMP as usual. The program should now be displayed in German.
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Use the program in German at times
If you change the language of the GIMP under Windows 7 If you want to switch more often, you can create a simple script file for one-time use. So you don't always have to change the environment variables.
- To do this, open the "Editor" program and enter the following two commands one below the other: "set lang = de" and Start gimp-2.6.exe (enter without the quotation marks), with your version of GIMP in the last command have to.
- Save the file in the .bat format, for example as "gimp-en.bat".
When you run the file you just created, the GIMP will automatically open in the language you specified. If you want to change the language for the next use, simply edit the file you just created and start the program from it.
