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IlIlIl

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Registered: 2019-05-29

Posts: 4

Locale problems openbox lightdm

Hello all

I just installed arch, everything is going fine, except when lightdm opens it starts in qwerty. After I login I set the autostart of openbox to setxkbmap fr. How can I set it to start at fr at the grub decryption and stay for the lightdm login? I have done the locale-gen thing but it doesn't work. It was working before I had openbox (not at grub but in shell)

%locale
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=

Why is it all en when I uncommented fr ??

thanks

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,456

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Re: Locale problems openbox lightdm

This is the problem:

I have done the locale-gen thing but it doesn't work.

But you have not given us nearly enough to work with:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

What have you put in locale.conf?  What instructions did you follow to initially install this system?

Last edited by Trilby (2019-06-08 12:01:40)

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,330

Re: Locale problems openbox lightdm

Also the keyboard layout is unrelated to the locale (regardless how broken the latter is)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … tion_files

To fix your locale: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

This is btw. the installation guide you should have followed. Make sure to read it before you come up w/ other stuff you forgot:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

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