The webtop is a JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology web application. The standard webtop can be customized, or you can develop your own using the SGD web services.
By default, the SGD web server Welcome Page at
https://
,
where server.example.com
server.example.com
is the name
of an SGD server, is displayed in English.
To change the default language of the SGD web
server Welcome Page, amend the symbolic link
/opt/tarantella/webserver/apache/
,
so that it links to another index page in this directory. For
example, to make the default Welcome Page display in Japanese,
link to the apache-version
/htdocs/index.htmlindex_ja.html
page.
When users log in using a browser at the
https://
URL, where server.example.com
/sgdserver.example.com
is the
name of an SGD server, the default language used
for messages displayed by the login dialog and the webtop is
controlled by the defaultlanguage
parameter
setting in the following file:
/opt/tarantella/webserver/tomcat/
tomcat-version
/webapps/sgd/WEB-INF/web.xml
To change the default language, edit this file and replace the
parameter value en
with the language
identifier for one of the following supported languages:
Language | Identifier |
---|---|
English |
|
French |
|
German |
|
Italian |
|
Japanese |
|
Korean |
|
Portuguese (Brazilian) |
|
Simplified Chinese |
|
Spanish |
|
Traditional Chinese |
|
Save changes to the web.xml
file and
restart the SGD web server.
The default language is also controlled by the Preferred Language in the user's client profile. Whenever the SGD Client is started from the command line, the language specified in the profile is used for messages displayed by the SGD Client, the login dialog, and the webtop. SGD Administrators can set the default language by editing the profiles in their organizational hierarchy. See also Section 6.2.4, “Client Profile Settings”.
To be able to display text for a locale, users must also have appropriate fonts installed on their client device.
Individual users can override the default language for the webtop in the following ways:
On the SGD web server Welcome Page, select a preferred language from the list and then click Log in to access a webtop in that language.
The SGD web server Welcome Page is at
https://
,
where server.example.com
server.example.com
is the
name of an SGD server.
Specify a different preferred language in the client profile.
Log in to SGD using a URL that specifies the
preferred language. The URL is
https://
,
where server.example.com
/sgd/index.jsp?langSelected=lang
lang
is a supported
language identifier for SGD and
server.example.com
is the name
of an SGD server. Users can manually type
this URL in their browser.
Run the SGD Client from the command line and
use the -preferredlanguage
lang
command line
argument to set the language, where
lang
is a
supported language identifier for SGD. This
argument can used in shortcuts and shell scripts.
When you override the default language, the login URL
specified in the user's client profile does not need to be
changed. This is usually
https://
,
where server.example.com
/sgdserver.example.com
is the
name of an SGD server.