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jmt2

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Registered: 2021-01-14

Posts: 2

Having trouble getting French menus in ubuntu 18.04

I'm trying to get an xfce4 (version 4.12) French environment up and running with a "headless" vnc session courtesy of this Docker image.

Now if I use the original

FROM ubuntu:16.04

with the French locale install it works fine and I can everything in French as shown below
https://imgur.com/hwrAR8i.

Now if I changed the `FROM` to use ubuntu 18.04, keeping everything the same, only some of the UI gets translated as shown in https://imgur.com/ZNq47nL.

Sorry if this is something obvious, I'm still new to these environments. I tried searching everywhere but couldn't find anything to help or guide me in this issue.

Thanks so much
- jmt2

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Having trouble getting French menus in ubuntu 18.04

Hello and welcome.

The docker file github page you linked to has an "Issues" tab. Probably best to post there. Xfce is fully translated - maybe there is an issue with docker file/setup.

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peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 156

Re: Having trouble getting French menus in ubuntu 18.04

Xfce is fully translated

This is more than disputable , with systems in French and Spanish I often have to battle with the ".mo" files. Especially with 4.14, where they have made new spanish translations , apart from being of poor linguistic quality, it has been very incomplete (even in "session and start" there was a phrase that was half-half,  spanish-english etc.).

jmt2

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Registered: 2021-01-14

Posts: 2

Re: Having trouble getting French menus in ubuntu 18.04

In case anyone stumbles here re: i18n of xfce on ubuntu 18.04.
I was able to get it into French by just adding the `Thunar.mo` file in `usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES`. For whatever reason the `mo` files are not generated in ubuntu18 but are in 16.

Some more info at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/630128/451127 as well as at a more active repo
https://github.com/ml-tooling/ml-workspace/issues/70