mate.desktop

[SavSanta]

i think my most recent upgrade changed the Language and Region settings to mate.desktop

This permeated thru to everything launched in my mate session including: uxterm: uxterm tried unsuccessfully to use locale mate.UTF-8 by setting $LANG to "mate.UTF-8 mate terminal: ~ $ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=mate.desktop LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="mate.desktop" LC_NUMERIC="mate.desktop" LC_TIME="mate.desktop" LC_COLLATE="mate.desktop" LC_MONETARY="mate.desktop" LC_MESSAGES="mate.desktop" LC_PAPER="mate.desktop" LC_NAME="mate.desktop" LC_ADDRESS="mate.desktop" LC_TELEPHONE="mate.desktop" LC_MEASUREMENT="mate.desktop" LC_IDENTIFICATION="mate.desktop" LC_ALL=

Changelog says version is mintlocale (1.3.1) rosa; urgency=medium

• Fixed a few issues in iminfo
• Tuned IM info for Korean
• Partially tuned IM info for Chinese (need more info from a Chinese user...)
• IM: Added lists for Thai and Vietnamese

[clefebvre]

Can you show the content of:

~/.pam_environment ~/.dmrc /etc/default/locale

Also when you run mintlocale from the terminal, what does it output in the terminal?

[SavSanta]

I fixed it by changing the settings thru the GUI in the "Languages Settings"(aka mintlocale) a long while back.

However for edificiation here is what it is now.

santa@home ~ $ cat ~/.pam_environment 
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.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
PAPERSIZE=letter
santa@home ~ $ cat ~/.dmrc 
[Desktop]
Session=mate
Language=en_US.UTF-8

santa@home ~ $ cat /etc/default/locale 
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
santa@home ~ $ 

Before in

[trendfischer]

I could confirm this bug. Something is setting the LANG and LC_* environments to "mate.desktop". It is easy to fix, but how can this happen?

I did not installed or updated any packages. A recursive grep for "mate.desktop" in /etc/* or ~/.config/ found no hit.

Is there any other GUI application, which could manipulate the locale settings beside mintlocale? I could not find any hint for this bug in this repository here.

[trendfischer]

Seems to be an issue with the MDM display manager or something else setting MDM_LANG to "mate.desktop", and MDM changes the locale settings so it is probably right to have this issue closed here.