{
"meta": {
"title": "Change Language | ProxMenux Documentation",
"description": "Switch ProxMenux UI between English, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portuguese. Translation install only — uses googletrans + a pre-cached translation table. The menu reloads automatically with the new language.",
"ogTitle": "Change Language | ProxMenux Documentation",
"ogDescription": "Pick the ProxMenux interface language from the Settings menu. Six languages supported."
},
"header": {
"title": "Change Language",
"description": "Switch the ProxMenux UI between six supported languages. Saves the choice to config.json and re-execs the menu with the new language. Only available on the Translation install type — the Normal (lightweight) install is English-only by design.",
"section": "Settings"
},
"intro": {
"title": "What this is",
"body": "A dialog menu that lists the six supported languages. Pick one, ProxMenux saves it to config.json as .language, then re-execs config_menu.sh so the new language takes effect immediately."
},
"warn": {
"title": "Translation install only",
"body": "This option only appears in Settings if both checks pass: /opt/googletrans-env/bin/activate exists (Python venv with googletrans), and config.json has a non-empty .language. On the Normal (English-only) install neither is present and the language picker is not shown."
},
"supported": {
"heading": "Supported languages",
"headerCode": "Code",
"headerLang": "Language",
"headerNotes": "Notes",
"rows": [
{
"code": "en",
"lang": "English",
"notes": "Source language — most accurate"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"notes": "Cached + auto-translated"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"notes": "Cached + auto-translated"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"notes": "Cached + auto-translated"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"notes": "Cached + auto-translated"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"notes": "Cached + auto-translated"
}
]
},
"englishTip": {
"title": "English is the most accurate",
"body": "Non-English strings are produced by a pre-cached table seeded from googletrans. Edge-case strings (rarely triggered options, recent additions) may fall through to a live googletrans call or to the English original. If a translation feels off, English is always the source of truth."
},
"underHood": {
"heading": "How it works under the hood",
"items": [
"Dialog menu lists the 6 codes; you pick one.",
"If config.json exists: jq --arg lang \"$new_language\" '.language = $lang' updates the field in place.",
"If config.json doesn't exist: a fresh one is created with the language code in a single-field object.",
"Confirmation dialog: \"Language changed to <code>\".",
"exec bash config_menu.sh reloads the Settings menu with the new language active."
]
},
"manual": {
"heading": "Manual equivalent"
},
"troubleshoot": {
"heading": "Troubleshooting",
"noOptionTitle": "Option doesn't appear in Settings",
"noOptionBody": "You're on the Normal (English-only) install. To get language support, reinstall ProxMenux choosing the Translation install option (it pulls Python venv + googletrans).",
"stillEnglishTitle": "Language changed but UI still shows English",
"stillEnglishBody": "The menu re-execs itself after the change. If you opened a fresh shell and started a different ProxMenux entrypoint, run menu again to pick up the new language. Confirm: jq -r '.language' /usr/local/share/proxmenux/config.json."
},
"related": {
"heading": "Related",
"items": [
{
"href": "/docs/settings/show-version-information",
"label": "Show Version Information",
"tail": " — confirms install type and current language."
},
{
"href": "/docs/settings",
"label": "Settings overview",
"tail": "."
}
]
}
}