Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-02-28 Thread Ted Baker
t john means as well ). On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 4:25 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:10:54PM -0500, Ted Baker wrote: > > So C.UTF-8 in itself does not count as a valid locale, and I have to add > > something like en_US.UTF-8? > > This is debian-user, so t

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-02-28 Thread Ted Baker
So C.UTF-8 in itself does not count as a valid locale, and I have to add something like en_US.UTF-8? The problem seems to show up only in gnome though. In console mode, things are fine without en_US.UTF-8. On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 9:52 AM john doe wrote: > On 2/28/2020 3:34 PM, Ted Baker wr

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-02-28 Thread Ted Baker
> > In GNOME, terminals are not children of the window manager, or even of > the session manager. When you ask for a terminal, GNOME sends a letter > to dbus, asking dbus to please make a terminal. Your gnome-terminal > is a child of dbus, and inherits its environment from dbus. > > You do not ge

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-02-28 Thread Ted Baker
> > You should use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'. > I actually tried `sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales`, but C.UTF-8 is not even on the list, so I can only remove en_US.UTF-8 there. Then I did `sudo update-locale LANG=C.UTF-8`. As far as I know, these steps basically modifies /etc/locale.gen, runs loca

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-02-28 Thread Ted Baker
> > This. Everything you know about Unix? Throw it out the window when > you're using GNOME. GNOME takes over everything, and makes you do > it all GNOME's way. You have control of nothing. > hmm. I am trying to understand what GNOME does under the hood, in this case, if possible. Right now, c

set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-02-27 Thread Ted Baker
I updated /etc/default/locale, LANG=C.UTF-8, then reboot. ted@debian:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= 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"