Directories in /home/user are in the rong language
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The language setting should be done during the installation, did you not do that or do you now want to change. Using Kubuntu (KDE) should be able to be set by following the instructions at the link below at the KDE site.
The language setting should be done during the installation, did you not do that or do you now want to change. Using Kubuntu (KDE) should be able to be set by following the instructions at the link below at the KDE site.
What are your defaults in /etc/xdg/user-dir.defaults? And what are the contents of your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and ~/.config/user-dirs.locale?
In /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults it is:
Code:
# Default settings for user directories
#
# The values are relative pathnames from the home directory and
# will be translated on a per-path-element basis into the users locale
DESKTOP=Desktop
DOWNLOAD=Downloads
TEMPLATES=Templates
PUBLICSHARE=Public
DOCUMENTS=Documents
MUSIC=Music
PICTURES=Pictures
VIDEOS=Videos
# Another alternative is:
#MUSIC=Documents/Music
#PICTURES=Documents/Pictures
#VIDEOS=Documents/Videos
And in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs it is:
Code:
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
Is this something that changed or have these directories been in English since the install?
Have you tried renaming the directories from a terminal as suggested above? Does that change anything?
I'm not familiar with these setting but you might open a terminal and type: whereis locale
That should show you where the files referencing locale are and there are a number of them. If you take a look at them, you may see the problem. If you modify anything, make sure to make a backup of the original before you do that and make notes of any changes you make.
Last edited by yancek; 10-31-2023 at 04:37 AM.
Reason: Add info
Is this something that changed or have these directories been in English since the install?
Have you tried renaming the directories from a terminal as suggested above? Does that change anything?
I'm not familiar with these setting but you might open a terminal and type: whereis locale
That should show you where the files referencing locale are and there are a number of them. If you take a look at them, you may see the problem. If you modify anything, make sure to make a backup of the original before you do that and make notes of any changes you make.
I just renamed the directories with mv command and it worked.
Yes, the directories where in english since install.
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