Installed Knoppix501 in English with
# knoppix keyboard=es
but I don't think I included a specific lang=en. Would that cause apps started
by the root user to be in German? Everything else is in English.
The actual offender is Krusader when I try to run as root. Yes, I know but it is
very handy. mc does fine but the editor is almost impossible to read.

Installed Xfce and mostly going very well.

I'm struggling because it's been many years since my German classes at the university.
40 years ago the classes were reading and writing oriented but I've forgotten a lot.

Thanks for any pointers.