Setting locale for user

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I'd like to set a locale for my user different than system locale.

By putting export LANG=en_US.utf8 in .bashrc I could do that for the shells, but still it's not working for applications not started via a shell (i.e. the desktop environment, LXDE, which is started through GDM3).

Is there any way to set a different default locale (used by any kind of application, even if not started via bash) for my user?

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X login is annoyingly inconsistent about which startup file names are used. On the system I'm using you would just need to modify $HOME/.xsessionrc. But it does vary. I generally put my environment variable settings in a separate file and source that from .profile and .xsessionrc.

If .xsessionrc does not work for you, check the documentation or read the scripts in /etc/X11/.

Solution:

This happens because the Jenkins master connects to the slave machine via non-interactive shell, so /etc/profile is not executed, and also /etc/default/locale does not have any effect.
non-interactive shells are usually using ~/.bashrc.

Nearly all details about this topic can be found on askubuntu:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/247738/why-is-etc-profile-not-invoked-for-non-login-shells

adding to ~/.bashrc:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US:en

did it for me.

This 'slave problem' is also discussed here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/hscDs4pKIoU https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/g0fNnDltqeM Kind regards, whosit

CentOS 7 – How to Change Language Using Command Line

To change the system language from the terminal , use the following line :

sudo system-config-language --text

Select your prefered language then validate.

Changes will take effect after the next reboot.

The --text option to avoid the prompt of the GUI.

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