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freyr

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2010-02-04

Posts: 131

[Solved] LXQt doesn't work with custom locale

Solution/Workaround at the bottom of this post

Hi!

I have a custom locale in /usr/share/i18/locale called en_HU.

The problem is that now I'm using LXQt and it doesn't recognize it under its Configuration Center's locale settings, furthermore it ignores both /etc/locale.conf and  ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt-config-locale.conf.

/etc/locale.conf
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LANG=en_HU.ISO-8859-2
LC_ALL=en_HU.ISO-8859-2

~/.config/lxqt/lxqt-config-locale.conf
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[General]
LANG=en_HU.ISO-8859-2
LC_ALL=en_HU.ISO-8859-2
__userfile__=true

When I give the command locale, I expect to see this:

LANG=en_HU.ISO-8859-2
LC_CTYPE="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_NUMERIC="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_TIME="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_COLLATE="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_MONETARY="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_MESSAGES="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_PAPER="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_NAME="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_ADDRESS="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_HU.ISO-8859-2"
LC_ALL=en_HU.ISO-8859-2

Instead I see this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

In the Configuration Center I can change it to whatever the Configuration Center's locale settings allow me to select, but I want to force it to en_HU. Exporting LC_ALL is only temporary, LXQt overrides it next time I log in. Even if I select the "No change" option, it won't remember it and goes back to whatever was set before.

Solution/Workaround:
It turns out there's the Environment (Advanced) section in Configuration Center | Session Settings. There I can set whatever environment variable I want and LXQt will apply it. I had to set "No change" for the locale settings in Configuration Center | Locale and now it works.
Also, it saves everything to ~/.config/lxqt/session.conf, so having a ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt-config-locale.conf seems to be redundant. Probably it didn't work because I wrote LC_ALL under [General] instead of [Environment], but I couldn't find anything related to this until I saw how it's saved in session.conf.

Last edited by freyr (2018-04-08 11:32:06)

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dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [Solved] LXQt doesn't work with custom locale

Not that familiar with LXQt, but what is the line "__userfile__=true" in "~/.config/lxqt/lxqt-config-locale.conf" do?

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freyr

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2010-02-04

Posts: 131

Re: [Solved] LXQt doesn't work with custom locale

Not that familiar with LXQt, but what is the line "__userfile__=true" in "~/.config/lxqt/lxqt-config-locale.conf" do?

I have no idea, it's there by default.

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