Mozilla Thunderbird spellcheck has too many listed languages [duplicate]

When I write an email in Mozilla, the spellcheck shows:

• 21 entries for Spanish (Cuba, Ecuador, Spain ...)
• 3 entries for English (Australia, UK, US)
• 4 entries for French (modern, classic, reform, classic/reform)

Is there a way to make it show up only the ones I am interested in (for example, Spanish (Spain), English(US), French(modern))?

It is very uncomfortable to search for the language I need among them all. I found this bug report: lp#651586 but seems it is not solved. Any clues? Thanks in advance

Solution 1:

There is a more humanistic solution than removing files.

1. Create a directory in you home directory:

   mkdir "$HOME/.local/share/myspell-selected"
   

2. Make symlinks of your favorite dictionaries (*.aff, *.dic) from /usr/share/myspell or /usr/share/hunspell to this directory, e. g.

   ln -st "$HOME/.local/share/myspell-selected" /usr/share/myspell/ru_RU.aff /usr/share/myspell/ru_RU.dic
   

   etc.

3. Launch Firefox/Thunderbird and open about:config via Edit → Preferences → Advanced → Config Editor.

4. Change or create the variable spellchecker.dictionary_path to the value /home/your_account/.local/share/myspell-selected (substitute your_account with the name of you home directory).

5. Restart Firefox or Thunderbird.

That is all. You have removed nothing, and even not needed root access (you are able to do it even at you university/office as well without asking your sysadmin!). Other users of your computer (if any) may customize the set of languages in their accounts according to their own tastes.

Solution 2:

I finally found the solution: (close Mozilla Thunderbird then)

1. for the English and Spanish dictionaries: go to /usr/share/hunspell/ and remove everything but
   • en_US.aff
   • en_US.dic
   • es.dic
   • es_ES.aff
   • es_ES.dic
2. for the French dictionary: go to ~/.thunderbird/***.default/extensions/[email protected]/dictionaries/ and remove everything but
   • fr-modern.aff
   • fr-modern.dic

Obviously, instead of actually removing those entries, you can create a folder named "hide" and put the entries you don't want in it.

Now when you write a email and right-click, it only shows up English (US), Spanish (Spain), French (modern)

Solution 3:

1) Select Languages

If you go to System Settings, the click on Language Support.

If you then click on the Install/Remove languages... button. This allows you to deselect/select the languages you want on your system.

Once the correct languages are selected, click on Apply Changes.

To sort them to your preferred defaults, click and drag the default item on the list of installed languages to the top of the list.

To make these settings apply System wide, click on the System Wide button

2). Regional Formats

The Regional Formats tab allows you to choose the way dates and numbers are displayed on your system.