[Solved] porteus refuses to switch language

[Chuck]

Hello. I've installed the language files through the porteus settings centre, the modules are loaded at startup but the menus and applications remain in english. If i logout the language selection shows only "default". How do I troubleshoot this? I'm using porteus 5.01 lxqt x64

[ncmprhnsbl]

I'm using porteus 5.01 lxqt x64

not 100% sure, but it looks like language selection for lxqt is not properly implemented for lxqt.
see what happens if you go to menu>preferences>lxqt settings>locale, and set you chosen locale there. (this will add [formats]LANG=<your_locale> to ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt-config-locale.conf file)
you'll need to logout/in, too, i think.

If i logout the language selection shows only "default".

if you mean on the lxdm login screen, i'm not sure it works there, though i would have thought it'd be handled by gtk..
also, to check whether the LANG environment variable is set properly, in terminal:

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echo $LANG

[Chuck]

I'm using porteus 5.01 lxqt x64

not 100% sure, but it looks like language selection for lxqt is not properly implemented for lxqt.
see what happens if you go to menu>preferences>lxqt settings>locale, and set you chosen locale there. (this will add [formats]LANG=<your_locale> to ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt-config-locale.conf file)
you'll need to logout/in, too, i think.

If i logout the language selection shows only "default".

if you mean on the lxdm login screen, i'm not sure it works there, though i would have thought it'd be handled by gtk..
also, to check whether the LANG environment variable is set properly, in terminal:

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echo $LANG

I have a laptop with the same porteus version but language changing has worked flawlessly, maybe a fluke.

In lxqt locale the language is already set correctly. Anyway running the echo $LANG command returns:

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scn_IT.utf-8

Edit: I found the solution, looking at that output. In lxqt settings there are multiple Italian languages. Instead of it_IT there was chosen scn_IT for all of them apart the first setting. Thanks for the help.