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Re: How to change locale for user ?

dummy@example.com (Élisabeth) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:42:39 +0000

Camtaf wrote:

I think, on XFCE, it is,
Settings > Keyboard > Layout

That's for the keyboard layout, which worked out of the box since installation.

Re: How to change locale for user ?

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:25:14 +0000

~/.xsessionrc can be used to source ~/.profile and ensure a consistent environment for all graphical desktops. See https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession#User_configuration for more on this.

The only potential problem is that Devuan's stock ~/.profile is not idempotent in respect of the user's PATH. See https://github.com/Head-on-a-Stick/shar … rofile#L30 for a version that can be sourced repeatedly without bloating PATH.

Re: How to change locale for user ?

dummy@example.com (Élisabeth) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:01:34 +0000

steve_v wrote:

I don't know what DE or other graphical stuff you're running, so I can't really comment on that.

At the moment just the basic installation.

I thought application pick it up from the locale setting.

What happens to folder names such as Download, etc. ?

Re: How to change locale for user ?

dummy@example.com (Camtaf) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:59:20 +0000

I think, on XFCE, it is,

Settings > Keyboard > Layout

Re: How to change locale for user ?

dummy@example.com (steve_v) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 06:59:36 +0000

As far as the terminal and such goes, set and export the LANG (and/or other related vars, see man 7 environ and man 7 locale) environment variable somewhere in your profile or shell rc files, same as on Debian.
I don't know what DE or other graphical stuff you're running, so I can't really comment on that.

How to change locale for user ?

dummy@example.com (Élisabeth) — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:45:38 +0000

During the installation process, I installed two locales:
en_GB.UTF-8 (default)
fr_FR.UTF-8

I'd like to make French the default for my user account.

How do I do this?