Not working on Ubuntu 24.04

[rolandixor]

In Ubuntu 24.04, the addon no longer works. Even the preferences button does nothing.

[fossfreedom]

hmm...

sudo apt install rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar here on ubuntu budgie and enabling the plugin shows me this

Preferences works fine.

Suggest run rhythmbox from a terminal - then try to enable the plugin. Any messages displayed?

[rolandixor]

This is the output I get:

(process:402765): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:58:49.489: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.

** (gst-plugin-scanner:402766): CRITICAL **: 12:58:49.524: _dma_fmt_to_dma_drm_fmts: assertion 'fmt != GST_VIDEO_FORMAT_UNKNOWN' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/alternative-toolbar/alternative-toolbar.py", line 115, in do_activate
    cl.switch_locale(cl.Locale.LOCALE_DOMAIN)
  File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/alternative-toolbar/alttoolbar_preferences.py", line 151, in switch_locale
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/locale.py", line 615, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

** (rhythmbox:402765): WARNING **: 12:58:50.760: Could not open device /dev/radio0

[fossfreedom]

what's the output of

locale

[rolandixor]

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_BB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[rolandixor]

Installing locales-all to see if that'll help.

[fossfreedom]

what's the output of sudo locale-gen ? that should generate all your locales again.

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

That's the key issue - something is very wrong with your current locale setup

[rolandixor]

Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_AG.UTF-8... done en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IL.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZM.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done Generation complete.

Still no dice here. I wonder if running it in KDE could be anything to do with this? Although, if I understand correctly, it should be reading locales independently, no?

[fossfreedom]

doubtful KDE is the issue here. Gtk will be using the underlying locale stuff. Worth double checking a brand new account to see if its account specific.

[rolandixor]

Running sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales didn't help either, even after editing /etc/default/locale as described: https://askubuntu.com/questions/599808/cannot-set-lc-ctype-to-default-locale-no-such-file-or-directory

[rolandixor]

Finally found a solution that actually worked. All system wide fixes did nothing, since it seems locale is still reading whatever is set in the user's environment. Anyway, here's the link to what worked for me, in case anyone else runs into this issue:

https://askubuntu.com/a/749065/1992

And the code that actually did it:

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

[fossfreedom]

Nicely found - what is more worrying I suppose is why your locale stuff didn't get created correctly in the first place.

[rolandixor]

Seems to due to the fact I'm using a mixture of US and British English, but I'm really not sure. Seems others keep encountering this issue and often the proposed solutions work for some and not others. Something is fundamentally broken in how locales are determined.