On 08/03/2020 06:15, Graham Seaman wrote: > I've previously used either Gnome or Enlightenment as my main > environment; I just installed Debian on an old laptop and decided to > give KDE a go instead. I often want to switch keyboard briefly to do a > bit of text editing with non-english characters (pt, de, ru). I don't > ever want to change localization away from GB English. In Gnome I > could do this: switching keyboard had no effect on localization. In > KDE I get randomly switch between localizations: for example, I just > ran apt install, and the first half of the messages were in > Portuguese, then it suddenly switched to German, with no input from > me. The only localizations I get match the keyboards I've set up > (though I'm not switching keyboard). I've removed all languages except > British English from Settings->language->configure plasma translations. > I configure layouts via System settings->Input Devices->Keyboard->Layouts and switch them using the tray icon or the keyboard shortcut, and only the keyboard is changed - not the full system locale.
-- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [email protected]

