Locale settings not honoured - file bug report?

[Erik Harrison]

On 12/8/06, Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > On 12/7/06, Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> I've noticed that locale settings seem not to be recognised in Xfce.
> >>
> >> So far, I've had to use shell scripts to open Thunderbird and Thunar and
> >> I will have to do the same for KSpread.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Shell scripts? As in manually setting the locale then launching
> > Thunderbird and Thunar?
> >
> > You say later that some applications obey the localizations and others
> > do not. Which apps DO appear localized, and how do you launch them?
> >
> >
> Yes.  The shell script has an export command, followed by a call to the
> executable.
>
> I said the settings "are not being adopted by all applications".  When I
> examine the matter closely in response to your question, I can find no
> applications in Xfce which use the system settings.  I now recall that I
> had to take extra trouble with OrageClock.  The string %x uses the US
> format.  To get the correct format for my locale, I have to use %a %d.%m.%y
>
> One application which has the correct settings is OpenOffice which
> controls its own locale settings.  Another is Konqueror which uses the
> date format set in Kde.  I had to use a utility in Kde to set the locale.
>
> I have menu shortcuts for all applications which I use.
>
> It seems that Xfce could do with a tool to change the locale for Xfce
> and perhaps set date formats.  Would it be appropriate to request such a
> feature?

I think I understand the problem, though I'm not entirely familiar
with PCLinuxOS, so I may be wrong. Here is my guess

You have a .bash_rc in your home directory that loads up your locale
settings whenever you start a shell. This file, in turn, loads up the
locale data from a system wide location at /etc/sysconfig/i18n

Thus, when you load applications from the Terminal, they run fine -
Terminal loads up a new shell, that shell has the appropriate
environment (due to .bash_rc) and thus checking the environment seems
correct and, indeed, apps run from the Terminal seem to run fine.

However, /etc/sysconfig/i18n is a distro specific file (it certainly
isn't available on my Slackware system), and thus isn't loaded by the
shell script that starts Xfce, so the locale isn't properly set for
the desktop.

You should alter the xinitrc script used to launch Xfce to source
/etc/sysconfig/i18n (it's in /etc/X11/xinitrc/xinitrc.xfce on my
system) by adding

.  /etc/sysconfig/i18n

at the top of the script.

Does that solve your problem? If it does, and you installed Xfce from
packages provided by your distro, then you should send a feature
request to the package maintainer to patch the script.

Hope that helps

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Erik

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