Change Language and Theme

Enable Language Packs

Open edX uses a single language by default, but it has support for additional languages.

You can enable other languages in Open edX using two-digit ISO 639-1 codes.
Open edX does not have a language switcher. Instead, it uses the language of the browser.

Run these commands to enable Russian and English in Open edX.

Note: No output is given if the command was successful or not.

# Stop the running instance
tutor local stop

# Apply the language packs
tutor local run lms ./manage.py lms shell -c "from openedx.core.djangoapps.dark_lang.models import DarkLangConfig; DarkLangConfig.objects.create(enabled=True, released_languages='ru,en')"

# Restart the Open edX stack for the changes to take effect
tutor local start -d

Open the site. It will now display in the language of the browser

Reference

Set a New Theme

We use the Indigo theme from Tutor with our logo.

Download the new theme

git clone https://github.com/overhangio/indigo

Open edX needs three images for banding. Upload these images to the server.
- my-favicon.ico
- my-logo.png (for the LMS site)
- my-studio-logo.png (for the CMS site)

Replace the default favicon.ico and logo.png for the LMS site

cp my-favicon.ico ~/indigo/theme/lms/static/images/favicon.ico
cp my-logo.png ~/indigo/theme/lms/static/images/logo.png

Replace the default favicon.ico and studio-logo.png for the CMS site (studio)

cp my-favicon.ico ~/indigo/theme/cms/static/images/favicon.ico
cp my-studio-logo.png ~/indigo/theme/cms/static/images/studio-logo.png

Render the theme

tutor config render --extra-config ./indigo/config.yml ./indigo/theme "$(tutor config printroot)/env/build/openedx/themes/indigo"

Rebuild the Open edX docker image with the new theme (this process takes a while)
```
tutor images build openedx
```
Restart the platform using the rebuilt docker image
```
tutor local start -d
```
Enable the Indigo theme
```
tutor local settheme indigo
```
Open the browser to view the new theme