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["Jack T." <jackt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, September 8, 2014 2:20 pm, Israel wrote:
> Hi Jack, Nio and all!
>
>
> On 09/08/2014 07:13 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>
>> Den 2014-09-08 11:10, Jack T. skrev:
>>
>>> On Mon, September 8, 2014 4:05 am, Israel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey everyone...
>>>> I made this bash script..
>>>> This should enable users to set their Locale very easily...
>>>> Anyone want to test it for me?
>>>> There are two files
>>>> locale.sh and list locale.sh needs to be marked executable keep both
>>>> in the same directory It needs zenity installed, but the script
>>>> should check for this and ask to install it.
>>>>
>>>> to run it go to the directory with both files and type ./locale.sh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>> Hi Israel,
>>>
>>>
>>> I tested this out inside my ToriOS install inside VB...seemed to
>>> operate okay...but my choice uk/GB did not persist over a logoff or
>>> reboot.
>>>
>>> JackT.
>>>
>>>
> Ok, I will look more into this...  But I am not sure it can persist in
> the Live Image... I don't think there is persistence for it... since this
> isn't a Casper based system... I could see if adding the tiny bit of
> Ubuntu specific stuff will allow it to be persistent though....
>
>> Hi Israel and Jack,
>>
>>
>> It does not work properly for Swedish (at least not in ToriOS and
>> Lubuntu Trusty). See this link.
>>
>>
>> Maybe something is lacking in order for Swedish to be implemented.
>> German and French worked better. for example de-DE.utf8 made the header
>> line of df change to German. With the -h (human readable option), French
>>  worked, but not German, which stopped at a special German character.
> I think I know what the issue is here... did the Dialog showing the
> installed locales show up? It should list all the current locales you have
> installed.
>> df -h # OK if French, bad if German, English header if Swedish locale
>> rox   # OK if French, OK if German, English header if Swedish locale
>>
>> But it did not work until I used the export command in the folling
>> link. (It is hard to reboot the live system, and I did not try in an
>> installed ToriOS system.)
>>
>>
>> http://www.shellhacks.com/en/HowTo-Change-Locale-Language-and-Character
>> -Set-in-Linux
>>
>
> I used:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
> as my guide... particularly
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale#Changing_settings_permanently
>
>
> hmm... Hold on... line 13, I left off the quotes on accident... that
> should fix the language issue I think.
>
>>
>> Changing the keyboard seems independent:
>>
>>
>> setxkbmap se setxkbmap de setxkbmap fr
> I added this into the script
>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
> Ok, try this version and see if it works for you.  I think the changes
> should persist in an installed OS, though I don't whether setxkbmap
> persists.
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
>
>
Hi Israel,

My testing is on an installed ToriOS inside VB (not LiveCD in VB)...

The locale change worked for me but then I'm only changing it to GB.

The change you mentioned to include the setxkbmap step didn't seem to
stick across logoff/reboot.

JackT.