I’m trying to adjust Time/Date settings to display months and days in English but KDE throws an error which makes no sense to me since I do have glibc package.
Wiki suggests to remove ~/.config/plasma-localerc but I’m not comfortable to delete stuff if I don’t have full understanding of how things are interconnected and function.
Is it safe to indeed remove such file or there might be another solution?
This is a multi-user system issue.
If you only have one user, or more, may have a different approach.
User setting for display language should be independent of system display language.
Display language is controlled from the LANG environment variable.
For system, this is set at /etc/locale.conf
For user, it depends on the DE, and/or session type.
TBO, I haven’t understood what exactly are your display language preferences.
I’m the only user of this machine. During installation process I chose English as my language and Poland as my current location. Afterwards while customizing and tuning my system I noticed that only lock screen, login screen and clock/calendar in tray have days and months written in Polish. Everything else is displayed in English.
My end-goal is to set English language to be system wide with the exception of location/timezone as Poland and measurements as metric. So as I wrote in first post I tried to adjust individual region/language settings in order to achieve that but encountered mentioned problems.
Thus seemingly trivial task turned out to be more complex
And looking at my /etc/locale.conf, I see that my settings definitely got messed up…
We have a communication problem
Please, try a little more.
I rephrase:
Show me something that is printed on the screen in English language, and write that one in Poland (like how you expect to be printed on the screen).
Can’t argue with that
In any case, I really appreciate you sticking around and your willingness to help.
Basically I achieved what I wanted by editing /etc/locale.conf as you suggested but if you don’t mind, I’d like to ask you to clarify few additional things.
In my understanding ~/.config/plasma-localerc, which reflects settings set in Plasma’s GUI (first post screenshot), overwrites/updates /etc/locale.conf. And to see such end-result we can execute this in terminal:
locale
Correct?
If so, my question is: what might be the cause of some settings from ~/.config/plasma-localerc not being applied to /etc/locale.conf ?
If the file is not edited by you with an editor, but is just updated after changing Plasma relevant System Settings, then only a Plasma dev can answer about the difference.
From what I know, locale output shows assumed values (quoted) for the variables that are not explicitly set somewhere (system, user session).
If some setting is important for you and not set properly, try a standard method to set it:
Export the value from a dot file like .profile or .xprofile. For example,