Localization in French with xfce

[foid]

Hi all,

I installed Funtoo a year ago, with xfce desktop environment.

I followed all the install process, as well as the localization page indications.

I would like to have my xfce in French, but the menu is still in English.

eselect is set to fr_FR.UTF-8 (from memory, I am not on my machine now).

LANG is set to French as well. L10N as well (fr-FR)

I also tried to export LANG from the xinitrc (I am not using any display manager, starting with startxfce4).

I am running the Next version of Funtoo (I followed the guide recently given). Previously, I was also

unable to have xfce in French. I tried to find some solution with the Gentoo website and forum as well,

without success.

So, any help would be greatly appreciated in order to sort this out.

Thanks.

[omasanori]

Hi foid!

I set up a fresh Xfce environment for testing. I succeeded to build a French Xfce desktop.

What I did:

• Add "fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8" to /etc/locale.gen
• Execute locale-gen
• Select fr_FR.UTF-8 with eselect locale set
• Reboot

What I did not:

• Set LINGUAS (As you may know, setting LINGUAS reduces language supports. Without LINGUAS, Xfce installs French language support by default on my environment)
• Set L10N (Doing so should not harm but I think it is not necessary in this case. It is recommended to set if you install Firefox, for instance.)
• Set LANG in xinitrc (as eselect locale updates /etc/profile so the setting should be enabled system-wide anyways)

Would you show us the output of the following command?

env | grep "^\(LANG\|LC_\)"