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For some reasons, I should use two language versions Mathematica.

The most reason is I want to see the comparison of Help page(English version and Chinese version) to improve my English, both are useful.

  • [update]However, When I just concentrate on the language of Help page, that problem is nothing, just put english help page in the english version, and chinese help page in the chinese version, open Mathematica by two shortcut, it's OK now, ignore the language of the UI(both Chinese).

question 1:

How to make FrontEnd do not show this popup dialogue?

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question2:

I've installed two Mathematica 9 with different language versions.

One in Disk D English Version

One in Disk E ChineseSimplified Version

How to configure two different settings?

(Hard point:)

Because they share the configures, some configure files are stored here in my computer.

"E:\\Users\\Quaternions\\AppData\\Roaming\\Mathematica"
"E:\\Users\\Quaternions\\AppData\\Roaming\\Mathematica\\FrontEnd\\init.m"

How to make the different configures, such as Language, Background and others.

For background color, the value of Background is easy to setting. As I've tried, one can add

SetOptions[FrontEndSession,Background->LightBlue]

in some init.m

here

"D:\\Program Files\\Wolfram\\Research\\Mathematica\\9.0\\SystemFiles\\Autoload\\PacletManager\\Kernel\\init.m"

or here

"D:\\Program Files\\Wolfram Research\\Mathematica\\9.0\\AddOns\\AutoLoad\\English\\init.m"

And then when open Mathematica in Disk D, the background is LightBlue.

When open Mathematica in Disk E, the background will be White ($FrontEnd background value).

What's the tough thing? The value of $Language

So the keypoint of the problem is： How to open Mathematica in Disk D whose $Language is English [Help page language is English, and also UI is English], and Open Mathematica in Disk E whose $Language is ChineseSimplifed [Help page language is ChineseSimplified and also UI is ChineseSimplified]

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  • $\begingroup$ Are they the same version of different? If they're the same version, why would you install it twice? You can run two instances without installing it twice. $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Commented May 17, 2013 at 3:32
  • $\begingroup$ Maybe you can edit the corresponding registry entries to redirect one of the folders. $\endgroup$
    – Silvia
    Commented May 17, 2013 at 3:46
  • $\begingroup$ @HyperGroups Why can't you just run two instances of the same instead of installing it twice? It doesn't seem to make sense what you're doing. $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Commented May 17, 2013 at 4:03
  • $\begingroup$ @Szabolcs Two instances of Mathematica is ok, but the pop-up dialogue of language settings is annoying. $\endgroup$
    – HyperGroups
    Commented Jun 23, 2013 at 4:41
  • $\begingroup$ Hypergroups are you the only user of these two versions if I may ask? Do they have the same $UserBaseDirectory? $\endgroup$
    – Jacob Akkerboom
    Commented Jan 20, 2014 at 0:46

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The (some?) front end settings are stored here (most likely on all platforms)

FileNameJoin[{$UserBaseDirectory, "FrontEnd", "init.m"}]

This is a user specific directory. This enables you to have different settings for different users.

If I set the option SetOptions[$FrontEnd, DynamicUpdating-> False] the corresponding value in this file changes. When I restart Mathematica, the value will be the same.

I would expect the same behaviour to occur if you change the setting Language -> Automatic into something else. However I am a bit hesitant to perform tests on this. Have you tried this?

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  • $\begingroup$ However, When I just concentrate on the language of Help page, that problem is nothing, just put english help page in the english version, and chinese help page in the chinese version, open Mathematica by two shortcut, it's OK now, ignore the language of the UI(both Chinese). $\endgroup$
    – HyperGroups
    Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 16:04

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