KDE Plasma: Error messages on program failure appear in strange, unintended script

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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…