System booted in another language and I can't change it back

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Hello all,
I’m a casual user of Linux, recently switched to Manjaro at a more tech-savvy friend’s recommendation. I mostly use Linux for gaming (Steam) and audio recording (Ardour). I downloaded a couple of plugins for the music side of things yesterday, and when I restarted the computer the system had switched over to Arabic. I can’t speak or read Arabic and I certainly wouldn’t have changed the settings.

I’ve been digging around trying to figure out how to fix this, completely baffled and looking for help. Things I’ve tried:

  • open the locale.conf file in /etc. It lists LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  • check locale in terminal - this lists LANG=ar_LB.utf8
  • sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - this prints out nothing, nothing changes.
  • uncomment en_US.UTF-8 from locale.gen, run sudo locale-gen; nothing changes.
  • cycle through the above in different orders; locale still prints LANG=ar_LB.utf8

The plugins I downloaded were zam-plugins-lv2 and stomptuner. I’m using the LXDE desktop environment. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

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Welcome to the forum! :vulcan_salute:

You’ve already tried a few things, but see whether the tutorial below may be of help to you. :wink:

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Time to learn a new language!!

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I tried a bunch of things and searched a lot of keywords, and found someone that solved a similar issue by just SELECTING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AT THE LOGIN SCREEN. So I logged out, and behold, my language was set to ar_LB.utf8 at the login screen. Not sure how that happened, but I got the language back to english by changing this setting at login. I had to do it twice (no change after the first try) but the 2nd time worked.

I learned a bit about the locale utility on the way, so I guess it wasn’t a total waste of time. Thanks!

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