On January I installed Fedora 16 xfce spin on my desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686) with respective dvd's and in both pc I set the system language to italian. All went ok, except for Thunar: at the first launch it is in italian; if closed and reopened it change language and remain in english for the rest of session. The folders shortcuts "Documents, Download", etc, is always in english.
I opened a forum post too: http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=274735 and a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771880
Thanks for your help.
Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 09:18 +0100 schrieb SilvioTO:
On January I installed Fedora 16 xfce spin on my desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686) with respective dvd's and in both pc I set the system language to italian.
What does 'cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n' return?
All went ok, except for Thunar: at the first launch it is in italian; if closed and reopened it change language and remain in english for the rest of session.
Is "Thunar --deamon" running when you log in? Is it still running after you close a Thunar window?
The folders shortcuts "Documents, Download", etc, is always in english.
This is handled through xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update. Is it executed on login?
Kind regards, Christoph
Good news:
I executed command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update", and the folders in italian was added. I moved my data and deleted the english folders. I put the command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update" to run on login automatically.
Reboot and now all are ok, thunar is always in italian.
A big thanks!
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P.S. However, I think this is a bug, and I think to be solved in the future versions of the Fedora Xfce spin. I love this spin, make it perfect!
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Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 10:31 +0100 schrieb SilvioTO:
Good news:
I executed command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update", and the folders in italian was added. I moved my data and deleted the english folders.
They should be renamed, so there is no need to move any data.
I put the command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update" to run on login automatically.
It should be executed automatically already: rpm -ql xdg-user-dirs-gtk | grep autostart /etc/xdg/autostart/user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop
Reboot and now all are ok, thunar is always in italian.
A big thanks!
P.S. However, I think this is a bug, and I think to be solved in the future versions of the Fedora Xfce spin. I love this spin, make it perfect!
Glad we managed to help you, but we cannot really fix a bug if you do not provide the feedback we have asked you for. We need to figure out what went wrong on your system.
Kind regards, Christoph
You are right, isn't a bug; thinking better I remember that at the end of installation, there was the folders in english and in italian in my home. Brobably confused and the first time with xfce, I deleted the wrong folders and/or renamed improperly. Deleting the command at login that I put some minutes ago the result is the same: thunar is and stay in italian.
Anyway, the output of commands that you suggest are:
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
Thunar --deamon is running at login and is running if thunar is closed.
Problem solved. Thanks again.
Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 11:13 +0100 schrieb SilvioTO:
You are right, isn't a bug; thinking better I remember that at the end of installation, there was the folders in english and in italian in my home. Brobably confused and the first time with xfce, I deleted the wrong folders and/or renamed improperly. Deleting the command at login that I put some minutes ago the result is the same: thunar is and stay in italian.
Ah, now that you mention it I remember the problem: Thunar uses ~/.config/user-dirs.locale rather than the environment variable LANG to determine which locale to use. This seems to cause a lot of confusion for many people as a quick google search reveals: https://www.google.com/search?q=~%2F.config%2Fuser-dirs.locale+thunar
However there is not much we can do about it other than making sure that xdg-user-dirs-(gtk-)update us run on login.
Kind regards, Christoph
Il 15/03/2012 12:57, Christoph Wickert ha scritto:
Ah, now that you mention it I remember the problem: Thunar uses ~/.config/user-dirs.locale rather than the environment variable LANG to determine which locale to use.
Interesting... in fact, on this forum: http://forum.fedoraonline.it/viewtopic.php?id=17173&p=4 other users had my same problem. The discussion is marked as solved with this solution:
adding " it_IT " instead of " en_EN " inside /home/" your user name "/.config/user-dirs.locale
I don't be able to evaluate if is a problem only of XFCE or The Fedora XFCE spin in general.
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Christoph Wickert -
SilvioTO