[solved] .config/locale.conf is ignored by XFCE

xanb · 2015-02-02 12:18:19

Hi,

I have this

[xan@argonia ~]$ cat .config/locale.conf 
LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8

in .config/locale.conf but XFCE displays windows in english. What's wrong? In tty1, ... tty8 all is fine.

Last edited by xanb (2015-02-15 16:25:19)

karol · 2015-02-02 13:31:34

Read the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

What's the output of 'localectl'?

Last edited by karol (2015-02-02 13:32:28)

th3voic3 · 2015-02-02 13:43:47

Also how do you start XFCE?

xanb · 2015-02-02 16:22:37

th3voic3 wrote:

Also how do you start XFCE?

With lxdm

clfarron4 · 2015-02-02 16:28:46

xanb wrote:

th3voic3 wrote:
Also how do you start XFCE?
With lxdm

Is the language in the language selection menu in LXDM set to the corresponding language?

olive · 2015-02-02 16:37:32

locale are set via environment variables (see them with locale). Some DE may read ~/.config/locale.conf but I am completely unsure for XFCE. If there is no GUI tools to set locale in XFCE, you can set them in your profile ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile). Every display manager should read this file by default.

M4R10zM0113R · 2015-02-03 05:54:07

If you're using lightdm, there's a dotfile which gets in charge of the display language on the DE, called ".dmrc"
I could set my display language by setting the locale on there.

$ cat ~/.dmrc
[Desktop]
Language=en_US.utf8
Session=i3

xanb · 2015-02-03 15:45:04

No folks, you don't understand me. In the wiki, it is said that locale.conf sets the language on each user. So if I have .config/locale.conf, XFCE should watch at that and serves the contents accordingly.

It's not issue of lightdm or lxdm.

Last edited by xanb (2015-02-03 15:45:25)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-02-03 15:54:42

ArchWiki wrote:

The precedence of these locale.conf files is defined in /etc/profile.d/locale.sh.
See #Supported variables, man 5 locale.conf and related for details.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … the_locale

Raynman · 2015-02-03 15:54:50

xanb wrote:

It's not issue of lightdm or lxdm.

It probably is. The wiki explains that /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is responsible for setting the environment variables using the locale.conf files. DMs can never agree on how they use the user's shell (ignore it completely/start it as login or non-login shell), so that could lead to this locale.sh never being executed.

progandy · 2015-02-03 16:06:33

Raynman wrote:

xanb wrote:
It's not issue of lightdm or lxdm.
It probably is. The wiki explains that /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is responsible for setting the environment variables using the locale.conf files. DMs can never agree on how they use the user's shell (ignore it completely/start it as login or non-login shell), so that could lead to this locale.sh never being executed.

Even if it is executed, the DM or WM can decide to execute another configuration script afterwards that reads the language from somewhere else.

clfarron4 · 2015-02-03 16:13:28

progandy wrote:

Raynman wrote:
xanb wrote:
It's not issue of lightdm or lxdm.
It probably is. The wiki explains that /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is responsible for setting the environment variables using the locale.conf files. DMs can never agree on how they use the user's shell (ignore it completely/start it as login or non-login shell), so that could lead to this locale.sh never being executed.
Even if it is executed, the DM or WM can decide to execute another configuration script afterwards that reads the language from somewhere else.

This. The reason I brought up setting it in the DM is that I have this set in ~/.config/locale.conf:

claire ~ % cat ~/.config/locale.conf
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8:en

This seemingly only applies to my terminal and applications I start with the run dialogue in MATE. Anything else seems to run on en_GB.iso88591, because that's what I set in MDM.

Last edited by clfarron4 (2015-02-03 16:13:58)

xanb · 2015-02-04 10:02:43

So there is no way for lxdm looks at .config/locale.conf of each user?

xanb · 2015-02-15 16:24:57

Solved:

$ cat .bashrc 
#
# ~/.bashrc
#

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias ssh='dbclient'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="~/.config"
export LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8

and

$ cat .profile 
export LANG=ca_ES.utf8

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#1 2015-02-02 12:18:19

[solved] .config/locale.conf is ignored by XFCE

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