Re: Guix, Rofi, i3wm and Locales

[Pierre-Henry F.]

Hi Ludo (sorry for this duplicate...),

I checked that I executed the commands:

  $ guix package -i glibc-locales
  $ export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale

Then:

  $ sudo apt remove rofi
  $ guix package -i rofi

But no... same result.

Yet:

  $ which rofi /home/phf/.guix-profile/bin/rofi
  $ rofi -combi-modi window,drun,run -theme solarized -font 'hack 10' -show 
combi -modi combi
  # Works as expected

Thanks for looking into this,
Pierre-Henry FRÖHRING
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Monday, October 15, 2018 2:13 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "Pierre-Henry F." address@hidden skribis:
>
> > I had a problem with an i3wm keybinding which called a bash script which 
> > called a command (Rofi) installed with Guix.
> > I uninstalled rofi with Guix, installed it again with apt and it worked 
> > fine:
>
> [...]
>
> > Apprently, installing with guix (`$ guix package -i rofi`) messes with 
> > `export LC_ALL=...` and the likes...
>
> Most likely the problem comes with locale setup for Guix:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html
>
> Packages installed with Guix do not use locale data provided by the
> underlying distro, which is why you have to follow the steps described
> in the page above to make sure that they have access to locale data.
>
> Does installed ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ and setting ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ help?
>
> Ludo’.