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situmicc

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Registered: 2026-01-12

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[SOLVED] Locale problem in labwc

I'm a newbie in arch and I ran into a locale problem in labwc, this problem didn't occur in another WM or DE

The warning i got is

warning: foot: invalid locale, falling back to 'C.UTF-8'

This warning appears everytime i open the terminal

I tried doing

sudo nano /etc/locale.gen

And uncomment

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Then I tried adding LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in

/etc/locale.conf

And after all this, i ran

sudo locale-gen

And it ran smoothly and I tried rebooting it after but the problem still persist.

This is my first time asking in Arch Linux, I hope im in the right part of of the forum to ask and any answer is very much appreciated. Thanks.

Note : I'm not sure if this is a WM problem or the Arch itself that's acting up but, if it's the WM's problem and I'm asking in the wrong place, please let me know.

Last edited by situmicc (2026-01-13 15:01:18)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem in labwc

What does `locale` and `locale -a` show?

situmicc

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Registered: 2026-01-12

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem in labwc

Thank you but I already solved the problem.

I used dotfiles which when i ran the script in changes the

 ~/.config/labwc/environment

locale, my fix is that i change the locale inside it to the locale that i use.

Thanks for the effort, appreciate it!

Last edited by situmicc (2026-01-13 11:53:41)

5hridhyan

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Registered: 2025-12-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem in labwc

solved the problem

Good.
please edit the title of the thread, add [SOLVED]

Last edited by 5hridhyan (2026-01-13 15:02:38)

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situmicc

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Registered: 2026-01-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem in labwc

Oh, Sorry. Thanks for telling me about it