I have Debian and installed Mate. I happen to install sv_SE.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 but I cannot change languish on desktop from sv_SE.UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8.

 

First I just remove "sv_SE.UTF-8, but then the Terminal complain it did not find sv_SE, so install again.

I generate the 2 locales, And thied to when I marked the local I want en_US, but it say sv_SE are active in Mate.

 

I tried to run:

sudo localectl set-locale en_US.UTF-8

Failed to issue method call: Access denied

 

I don't find any "Languish controll" at all in Mate desktop

It is right languish in terminal.

 

Cheers Joni

dpkg-reconfigure locales

and change default locale

 

Tried?

Yes. I just came to armbian-config and there I select en_US as default, but it does not change Mate to en_US. It change are only on cli.

Seems like Mate change to sv_SE.UTF-8, but there are no app to change launguish in Mate. Think I have to remove mate?

For mate IIRC they use gnome's gnome-language-selector (start it in a terminal if you are missing the icon in settings), but it was a while since I used that desktop-env so I could be wrong.

My old notes says the setting should be in: System > Control Center > Language Support

 

For your information (as a fellow Swedish person): there is a locale called en_DK.UTF-8 that you might want to use instead. That way you get the correct  settings for Scandinavian (like date/clock format for example) but the language is English.

 

Or you can probably do it in terminal altogether:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales # select en_DK.UTF-8 here, or whatever locale you want to use, I will use the dk version in this example
localectl set-locale LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
sed -i "s/sv_SE/en_DK/" ~/.dmrc

 

Edited May 22May 22 by bedna