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Comar

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Registered: 2020-02-29

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[SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

Trying to run Rofi I always get the same error

 Rofi-WARNING **: 01:27:27.376: Failed to set locale 

I'm pretty sure my locale is set correctly

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
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=

Yes, i uncommented in the locale.gen:

en_US.UTF-8

run:

# locale-gen

and I wrote:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

in my locale.conf as the wiki tells in the arch install page.

Last edited by Comar (2020-02-29 15:44:35)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,827

Re: [SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

Please post the output of the following

locale -a
localectl
grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen

Please also use code tags for commands and their outputs.

Comar

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Registered: 2020-02-29

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

Please post the output of the following

locale -a
localectl
grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen

Here is the output:

[ ~]$ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
es_US.utf8
it_IT.utf8
[ ~]$ localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: it
      X11 Layout: n/a
[ ~]$ grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen
es_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8

please also use code tags for commands and their outputs.

My bad, i corrected the post.

Last edited by Comar (2020-02-29 15:23:37)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

Yes, i uncommented in the locale.gen:

en_US.UTF-8

No you didn't. Read the output of the grep command that you just ran...

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Comar

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Registered: 2020-02-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

No you didn't. Read the output of the grep command that you just ran...

OH, i didn't realized until now it was es instead of en. Thanks for the help

Last edited by Comar (2020-02-29 15:44:55)

iSantxs

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Registered: 2024-02-03

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

The same thing happens to me, when executing

rofi -show drun

gives me:

Rofi-WARNING **: 16:53:41.255: Failed to set locale.

And I can't find a solution to the problem anywhere else, not even the one in this post.
Could you help me?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

Don't necro bump, don't cross post and then see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1889781

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2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale doesn't work with Rofi

Closing this old solved thread.