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Alex Zhang

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Registered: 2021-06-21

Posts: 1

language changing in xfce

I'm given an assignment to change language setting in xfce through some other means than setting locale, because it was said that setting locale does change language environment completely

looking for any advice, so many thanks!

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: language changing in xfce

Hello and welcome.

locale is one component of localization/internationalization. Here is an Arch Wiki page on it.

Upstream Xfce (or the Xfce project) has the option to change fonts (Settings Manager > Appearance) and keyboard layout (xfce4-xkb-plugin) but the rest needs to be done at the distro level (like changing locale). Note that some distros do offer tools to make these changes but again that is at the distro level and not an upstream Xfce capability.

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peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 154

Re: language changing in xfce

Usually the system language is changed in the session manager, when you log (LightDM in case of XFCE, at least in all distributions I know). A reboot is obviously necessary.

sh4tr

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Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 32

Re: language changing in xfce

would

export LC_LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

in .profile work?