Change "locale" to English, but keep Euro time, currency etc

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#1

Halo!

Great distro! However, I’m having a problem I’ve never faced before. When picking the locale for my country (Finland) a lot of the GUI is in Finnish unfortunately. I’d like to put it back to English, but keep the time and currency for my region. How do I do that? I don’t seem to see a way to do it in the settings.

Thanks!

#2

We can try the Arch Way:

localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=fi_FI.UTF-8

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

#3

Thanks that made my folders and some settings go back to English. However, he menu at the top left launcher (rocket icon, I think it’s jgmenu?) no longer opens on left click. Also my terminal readout, buttons (like OK and Apply) and Grub2 are also still in Finnish.

#4

Could you run jgmenu from the terminal and post output.

Please also post locale -a to confirm you have en_GB.UTF-8 installed.

If the above gives no clues, I’d be interested in output of jgmenu_run pmenu .

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#5

You’ll need to edit 2 files to your liking

/etc/default/locale
/etc/locale.conf

They look like this, you want to just change the LANG and LANGUAGE I believe

LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_CA.UTF-8
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