Can't change system language to English

[ubiq]

After install I had English as system language and still in system settings I can see only English

But at you can see system language now Russian and I don’t know how to switch it back, because I didn’t switch it at all.

So how to change language back? And how to delete language pack?

cat locale.conf                                                                                       ✔ 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

locale                                                                                                ✔ 
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

And I already did sudo locale-gen

[freggel.doe]

@ubiq

cat locale.conf                                                                                       ✔ 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Just to be clear:

1. that is /etc/locale.conf?
2. en_US.UTF8 line in /etc/locale.gen is uncommented?

@ubiq

And I already did sudo locale-gen

Please post the output of that command.

[ubiq]

1. Yep

# /etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8

# /etc/locale.gen
...

# Locales enabled by Calamares
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8

sudo locale-gen                                                                                          ✔ 
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Copying saved locales...
Copying complete.

Even if I comment RU string in locale.gen and run locale-gen nothing changes (

[ubiq]

So I changed it back to English. I’m manually add russian here:

And after that switched it back and forth couple times and after relogin I have English system language. But I still don’t know where this settings stored.

[freggel.doe]

@ubiq

But I still don’t know where this settings stored.

Locale always resets on restart

Plasma uses $HOME/.config/plasma-localerc, you might want to adjust that one: $ cat ~/.config/plasma-localerc [Formats] LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 [Translations] LANGUAGE=de:en_US There also is $HOME/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh, but it has comments saying it’s generated: $ cat ~/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh # Generated script, do not edit # Exports language-format specific env vars from startkde # This script has been generated from kcmshell5 formats. # It will automatically be overwritte…

[connectable]

Hi , thanks very much for your contribution. As a newbie to Manjaro, I’ve struggled with setting up the correct language/locale for over 1 hour. I originally chose uk_… - turns out that was ukranian?! Having followed the advice before your post, was STILL left with a job half done. The duplication of a setting foir a user profile should ideally be made CLEAR in the setup - not everyone is a linux guru. Thanks again. Joe.

[Nachlese]

It’s unclear whether you still have a problem and are asking for assistance or whether you just wanted to vent some frustration