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unklar · 2019-01-20 13:41:44

I spent the whole morning fixing that location. This is really well documented at debian. 8o

root@dwmX:~# locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  de_DE.UTF-8...[error] cannot open locale definition file `de_DE': No such file or directory
 done
Generation complete.

lroot@dwmX:~# export LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
root@dwmX:~# export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
root@dwmX:~# export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (de_DE.UTF-8)
root@dwmX:~# locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  de_DE.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `de_DE': No such file or directory
 done
Generation complete.

root@dwmX:~# locale -a
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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX

root@dwmX:~# update-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = "de_DE.UTF-8",
	LC_ALL = "de_DE.UTF-8",
	LANG = "de_DE.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
root@dwmX:~# localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8
failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `de_DE': No such file or directory
###############################
live@dwmX:~$ su -
Password: 
root@dwmX:~# apt policy locales
locales:
  Installed: 2.28-5
  Candidate: 2.28-5
  Version table:
 *** 2.28-5 500
        500 http://debian.mirror.root.lu/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

root@dwmX:~# apt policy locales-all
locales-all:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.28-5
  Version table:
     2.28-5 500
        500 http://debian.mirror.root.lu/debian buster/main amd64 Packages

root@dwmX:~# apt install locales-all 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  locales-all
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 227 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://debian.mirror.root.lu/debian buster/main amd64 locales-all amd64 2.28-5 [10.8 MB]
Fetched 10.8 MB in 13s (819 kB/s)                                                                                                                            
Selecting previously unselected package locales-all.
(Reading database ... 98594 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../locales-all_2.28-5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking locales-all (2.28-5) ...
Setting up locales-all (2.28-5) ...

root@dwmX:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
locales-all installed, skipping locales generation

root@dwmX:~# locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  de_DE.UTF-8...[error] cannot open locale definition file `de_DE': No such file or directory
 done
Generation complete.
root@dwmX:~# update-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
root@dwmX:~# export LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
root@dwmX:~# export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
root@dwmX:~# export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
root@dwmX:~# locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  de_DE.UTF-8...[error] cannot open locale definition file `de_DE': No such file or directory
 done
Generation complete.

The only thing missing is the locales-all package to do the whole ringlet again.
In dwmX only the Jgmenu is changed. The applications, except geany, look at me further in english...
...and, since I changed the resolution, the output to the dmenu is missing in the upper right corner.

I today don't feel like it anymore

Last edited by unklar (2019-01-20 13:47:57)

ohnonot · 2019-01-22 06:00:40

unklar wrote:

...Hm, he doesn't do the localization.

apparently, you are also allowed to do it manually on debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/Locale#Manually

unklar · 2019-01-22 13:33:10

ohnonot wrote:

unklar wrote:
...Hm, he doesn't do the localization.
apparently, you are also allowed to do it manually on debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/Locale#Manually

^^I did that.
This is also not possible without the locales-all package!

mrneilypops · 2019-01-22 16:10:27

@unklar
Sorry to waste your time.
I will try and include locales-all in the next alpha.

unklar · 2019-01-22 20:04:15

mrneilypops wrote:

Sorry to waste your time.

You haven't wasted my time.
This way I knew what to do when I installed it to my hard drive.

ohnonot · 2019-01-23 06:17:39

unklar wrote:

^^I did that.
This is also not possible without the locales-all package!

so it's OK now?

unklar · 2019-01-23 09:28:24

ohnonot wrote:

unklar wrote:
^^I did that. big_smile
This is also not possible without the locales-all package!
so it's OK now?

Yes

mrneilypops · 2019-01-23 21:08:11

The joys of ALPHA...

beaker · 2019-02-26 18:45:46

lock your daughters away . . . dwm6.2 has been released.

ohnonot · 2019-02-26 19:00:29

beaker wrote:

lock your daughters away . . . dwm6.2 has been released.

oh my.
6.1 was in 2015...
browsing the git repo, doesn't look like very much happened.
i guess small changes piled up over the years and someone decided it's time to make it a release.

ps: also a new dmenu release!

mrneilypops · 2019-02-26 20:16:34

dwmx ALPHA5 coming soon

* firefox 65.x
* dwm 6.2
* dmenu 4.9
* st terminal 0.8.2
* firefox 65.0.1
* jgmenu 2.1
* urxvtc @ 95% opacity
* Nordic gtk theme 1.6
* Debian swirl mono icon (jgmenu)
* default wall : https://jarekkubicki.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/60582/

dwm 6.2 changelog is bloat

Last edited by mrneilypops (2019-02-26 20:19:16)

Branimir · 2019-02-28 00:40:51

Cheers everyone. I have this 2011 Asus laptop that used to run Crunchbang (back in the 2011), and have been a Debian user for as many+some years on the home computer, so I figured I could get rid of the Linux Mint XFCE from the laptop and go back to openbox type of distro... So here I am, feels like this project took off, where #! stopped.

Digging the "upgrades", the dynamic menu and some cool gui and script tweaks, to make customizing easier.

To tell ya the truth I forgot the tint2 and conky editing years ago, and it's cool that don't really have to go through all that fuss again, just to change the order of the launchers in the tint2, or the layout of conky.

Warm greets from Croatia, now to figure, why does it boot so slow...

hhh · 2019-02-28 02:25:14

Branimir wrote:

Warm greets from Croatia, now to figure, why does it boot so slow...

BL Helium should only boot slowly the first time you boot a new installation, it should be pretty quick after that. Feel free to open a support thread in "Basic Help & Support" if that's not the case with your system.

And welcome to the Forums!

cherkie · 2019-03-22 09:49:04

I am lost. I can't deal with the plethora of distros anymore.

Got a 2017 ThinkPad with a separate nvme and ssd and I felt "adventurous" and tested few distros on it... antergos, solus, arch, and I always feel lacking. I always am pissed off about lack of some feature or different package manager than Debian. And I always compare distros to BL, because I have installed it at work just under a year ago and I haven't looked back since.

It's just sometimes I get swayed by the flashy looking distros, only to find out after install that this, that, and that other thing do not work. Or that I can't find my way around settings, or even that the settings themselves do not work properly (had that in pop_os, solus). Yeah, BL appears to be "basic" and "old" kernel but in reality BL is as advanced as any other distro and I don't need the "new" kernel at all. I am used to Debian now. It's home.

As a last test before coming back to BL I plan to install plain Debian and see if I really need a DE that isn't openbox or should I just go back to BL?

In all honesty, the biggest "beef" I have with BL is that I haven't found a way to disable touchpad when typing / implement a working touchpad 'toggle' and also (this is the funniest) that external screen does not connect automatically when HDMI is being plugged in. Really, first world problems...

So yeah, this is distro-hoppers anonymous, my name is cherkie and I am an addict.

edit. oh yeah, and my signature explains perfectly why I don't want to use rolling distros!

Last edited by cherkie (2019-03-22 09:50:31)

nore · 2019-03-22 14:11:55

^You are not alone, cherkie.

PackRat · 2019-03-22 17:22:59

Finally got around to installing Alpine Linux.

Excellent choice if you want a minimal distro to build up to you liking. Got a workable xfce desktop going. Unfortunately, no time to do much else with it, so back to ArchLabs on that computer.

johnraff · 2019-03-23 07:33:41

cherkie wrote:

I haven't found a way to disable touchpad when typing

The default BL ~/.config/openbox/autostart contains this:

## Disable touchpad while typing
#syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &

Does uncommenting the second line not help?

cherkie · 2019-03-24 07:29:47

johnraff wrote:

cherkie wrote:
I haven't found a way to disable touchpad when typing
The default BL ~/.config/openbox/autostart contains this:
## Disable touchpad while typing
#syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &
Does uncommenting the second line not help?

Thanks. I have gone through dozens of synaptics articles and well, openbox/autostart syndaemon line was always uncommented for me and never made any difference.

Anyway, I am on day two using Debian with KDE. So far quite good. Can customise quite a lot. It seems.

Last edited by cherkie (2019-03-24 07:30:05)

PackRat · 2019-03-24 19:56:43

cherkie wrote:

johnraff wrote:
cherkie wrote:
I haven't found a way to disable touchpad when typing
The default BL ~/.config/openbox/autostart contains this:
## Disable touchpad while typing
#syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &
Does uncommenting the second line not help?
Thanks. I have gone through dozens of synaptics articles and well, openbox/autostart syndaemon line was always uncommented for me and never made any difference.
Anyway, I am on day two using Debian with KDE. So far quite good. Can customise quite a lot. It seems.

Using synaptics?

You can try this command:

synclient TouchpadOff=$(synclient -l | grep -c 'TouchpadOff.*=.*0')

that should toggle the touchpad off/on; I used it on my HP laptop because, like you, that syndaemon command never made any difference. If it works, you can use it in a keybinding.

Back on topic; after a year long hiatus for various life issues, VSIDO will hopefully be making a new release soon. Currently in the process of upgrading the installer.

Last edited by PackRat (2019-03-24 19:57:40)

cherkie · 2019-03-24 21:18:27

Thanks, PackRat.

Also - back on topic. I am going back to BL. Too many things annoy me in an non openbox environment...

Why am I doing this to myself!

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