# \[TIP\] UB 25.04 - Switching between languages

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/tip-ub-25-04-switching-between-languages/7794>\
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**Created:** [April 22, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/tip-ub-25-04-switching-between-languages/7794 "2025-04-22T09:33:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/tip-ub-25-04-switching-between-languages/7794/1 "2025-04-22T09:33:47Z")

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On UB 25.04, it’s (temporarily) no longer possible to switch the display from one language to another from the Budgie Control Centre.

If, like me, this feature is useful to you, until the problem is fixed, here’s a quicker way to implement the workaround proposed in the release notes:

> **[Ubuntu Budgie 25.04 release notes | Ubuntu Budgie](https://ubuntubudgie.org/2025/04/ubuntu-budgie-25-04-release-notes/)**
>
> Ubuntu Budgie 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is a Standard Release with 9 months of support by your distro maintainers and Canonical, from April 2025 to Jan 2026. These release notes showcase the key takeaways…

Launch the terminal (Ctrl Alt t) and enter this line:

```auto
gedit .bashrc

```

Copy and paste this line at the end of the file to add an alias and save the modification:

```auto
alias sl='_sl() { localectl set-locale LANG=“$1”.UTF-8; reboot; }; _sl' # Set Locale

```

Next time you open a terminal, just type `sl fr_FR`, for example — for the list of variants, enter `localectl list-locales`.

The system will reboot in the language you selected.  
If you didn’t have to reboot, it would be faster than from BCC… 🤨