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 Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 7:46 am Post subject: [FIXED] LightDM causes mixture of languages (en/fr) |
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Hi again.
I've just noticed some of the interface elements in my Xfce4 desktop are shown in Engligh while others are shown in French. My desktop should be all French. As a matter of fact, my desktop icons say: "Répertoire personnel" (i.e. "Home"), "System de fichiers" (i.e. "Filesystem"). But the trash icon says "Trash" instead of "Corbeille". Also when I click any folder icon or when I select it from the application menu,Thunar shows in English only!
The Whisker menu is all in French, as expected. But Thunar preferences are shown in English. Even weirder, the Action buttons panel plug-in shows French tooltips but when I click it the dialog box is shown in English... Losing my religion here!
What could possibly cause all of this? I'm 100% positive my desktop was all French when I started to configure it. Something must have changed in the middle but I don't really see where I should look first.
Any hint/help is appreciated here.
EDIT: I think I have identified the cause of this issue, hence renamed this topic.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:15 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure this applies to my system because the only spot where I set my (regular) user locale from is LightDM and it's set to fr_BE.utf8. LC_MESSAGES is set nowhere, for instance. Besides, the translations do exist. I'll try setting language globally, i.e. system language to fr_BE.utf8 and see.
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I've found the guilty one! It's LightDM that doesn't do its job properly!
If I log in from a tty in text mode, set the environment manually to fr_BE.utf8 and then run startxfce4, everything is fine and shown in the correct language. From LightDM I can set the locale to whatever I want, doesn't matter, only partial translations... although *all* of the environment variables are set correctly, checked from xfce4-terminal *after* I logged in, for instance. My guess is that LightDM doesn't set the environment variables in a timely fashion before running the interface elements.
The thing is I have no idea how to fix that!
EDIT: I've also checked all processes running under X, none of them have a LC_\w+ variable set, only LC_COLLATE, as set in my /etc/02locale file:
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This to me is proof that the locale menu in LightDM is absolutely useless (or at least doesn't do what it suggests)!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Hi VinzC,
I use slim, no problem with locales (fr_BE and fr_NL) 
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| xaviermiller wrote: | Hi VinzC,
I use slim, no problem with locales (fr_BE and fr_NL) |
You know what? I was about to install it  . Thanks, Xavier!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| VinzC wrote: | | This to me is proof that the locale menu in LightDM is absolutely useless (or at least doesn't do what it suggests)! |
Please consider sharing your experience and filing a bug on bugs.gentoo.org |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| charles17 wrote: | | Please consider sharing your experience and filing a bug on bugs.gentoo.org |
Done.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| xaviermiller wrote: | Hi VinzC,
I use slim, no problem with locales (fr_BE and fr_NL) |
| VinzC wrote: | | You know what? I was about to install it . Thanks, Xavier! |
Well, much harder than I thought. Slim prevents XDM from stopping and even locks up my machine and I can do nothing else but restart my laptop. The keyboard is still responsive but the screen no longer reacts, no VT switching, no picture... Total mess. Have to stick with LightDM. *sighs*
I've also tried to force uninitialized language variables in any way that I could think of like this:
| Code: | [ -n "LC_CTYPE" ] || export LC_CTYPE=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_NUMERIC" ] || export LC_NUMERIC=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_TIME" ] || export LC_TIME=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_COLLATE" ] || export LC_COLLATE=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_MONETARY" ] || export LC_MONETARY=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_MESSAGES" ] || export LC_MESSAGES=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_PAPER" ] || export LC_PAPER=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_NAME" ] || export LC_NAME=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_ADDRESS" ] || export LC_ADDRESS=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_TELEPHONE" ] || export LC_TELEPHONE=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_MEASUREMENT" ] || export LC_MEASUREMENT=$GDM_LANG
[ -n "$LC_IDENTIFICATION" ] || export LC_IDENTIFICATION=$GDM_LANG
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I've tried:
- .bashrc — no way
- .xinitrc — no way
- editing /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc — no friggin' way!
Nothing worked  .
The *only* thing that works is set the language for the system, i.e. globally... *sighs*
EDIT: St00pidity sometimes prevents you from seeing you are! I forgot the dollar sign before the variables in my tests, so unsurprisingly setting all of my locale variables was doomed and failed miserably. I've now saved this script as /etc/xprofile, as LightDM expects to find it and now I've got the translations I expected!
Case closed.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Your problem may be more with Xfce4 than LightDM. What I do to force Xfce4 to export in it's environment the variables I want, like the locale ones, is to create an exécutable Bash script ~/.xsessionrc with the contain I want. Than I create symbolic links to it
| Code: | ln -s ~/.xsessionrc ~/.xprofile
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It appear that one of this script is read during the desktop environment start no matter which distribution it is. An other way for Xfce4 only is to copy the file /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to ~/.config/xfce4/ and add the stuff you want to it or modify it at your taste. If you put your localisation variables and export them in this file, Xfce4 must recognise them.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot, Paul. After reading your post I also found LightDM uses a few init-like scripts, which I can use to force my environment variables. Amongst these is /etc/xprofile. I tested that aaaaand it worked -- if you correct my stupid mistake in my previous post: I forgot the dollar sign in all the variable tests *facepalm* -> not a surprise it didn't work so far!
Now onto the next problem...
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| VinzC wrote: | | ... tested that aaaaand it worked -- ... |
Good enough to propose it as a solution in bug 630330? |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:45 am Post subject: |
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| charles17 wrote: | | Good enough to propose it as a solution in bug 630330? |
Done, too .
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Is this by any chance the same as LighDM Bug No. 797249?
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Might be. Wasn't aware of that one. FTR I noticed the GDM_LANG environment variable by inspecting the environment block from /proc/xxx/environ. And every process launched from lightdm has that variable set.
Meh... this is a pretty old bug!
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