Re: Xfce4 localization in Guix System for only one exact user

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 2 août 2019 18:50:23 GMT+02:00, address@hidden a écrit :
>Hello! This is from those question people want just find one or two
>lines to paste in terminal and to get effect.
>I did not find solution.
>Please, how to make Xfce4 menus (right mouse click, maybe Main Menu)
>become Russian for only one user 'mom'?
>
>As I know, packages are installing using locale settings. So, I need to
>configure my locale and reinstall Xfce4 (reconfigure system).
>
>I have installed locale package as as Guix Manual says [1] with this
>command:
>
>$ guix install glibc-locales
>I have now 'locale' command in guix (but do not know exactly if it is
>provided with glibc-locales? and is it providing with
>glibc-utf8-locales ?):
>
>$ locale
>LANG=en_US.utf8
>LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
>LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
>LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
>LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
>LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
>LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
>LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
>LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
>LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
>LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
>LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
>LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
>LC_ALL=
>And I've found in the web the way to change locale that might work on
>Guix System:
>
>$ localedef -c -i ru_RU -f UTF-8 ru_RU.utf8
>cannot create temporary file:
>/run/current-system/locale/2.28/locale-archive.g44JbZ: Read-only file
>system
>
>But as I can see need to do this by sudo user. So it will change locale
>for entire system. But I want localize Xfce4 for only user 'mom'.
>Can I do it?
>[1] http://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Locales-1

Not sure I can help. First, you don't need to generate a locale, it's already 
available as ru_RU.UTF-8 (or similar). Your graphical session will need to be 
loaded with that locale.

To do so, either set it globally with the locale field in your config.scm, or 
find a way to have it loaded by the user. Maybe your login manager allows you 
to set a locale, which might work, or configure the desktop environment to use 
the locale. This is not something managed by guix, but with user preferences. 
Maybe you will need a separate package for that (xfce4-settings or something).

Sorry I can't provide much more help.