%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ blocaled-&blocaled-version; blocaled Introduction to blocaled blocaled is an implementation of the org.freedesktop.locale1 D–Bus protocol, which normally comes with systemd. It is needed by the GNOME desktop. &lfs91_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &blocaled-md5sum; Download size: &blocaled-size; Estimated disk space required: &blocaled-buildsize; Estimated build time: &blocaled-time; blocaled Dependencies Required and User Notes: Installation of blocaled Install blocaled by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc && make To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install Configuring blocaled Config Files /etc/blocaled.conf /etc/blocaled.conf Configuration Information /etc/blocaled.conf contains the location of the settings files used by blocaled. The defaults are suitable for BLFS. Information about the entries is available as comments in the file. The org.freedesktop.locale1 protocol is unable to export locale variables. Locale settings are stored by default in /etc/locale.conf. We need to retrieve them in the bash profile. As the root user, issue: cat > /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh << "EOF" # Begin /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh if [ -r /etc/locale.conf ]; then source /etc/locale.conf; fi if [ -n "$LANG" ]; then export LANG; fi if [ -n "$LC_TYPE" ]; then export LC_TYPE; fi if [ -n "$LC_NUMERIC" ]; then export LC_NUMERIC; fi if [ -n "$LC_TIME" ]; then export LC_TIME; fi if [ -n "$LC_COLLATE" ]; then export LC_COLLATE; fi if [ -n "$LC_MONETARY" ]; then export LC_MONETARY; fi if [ -n "$LC_MESSAGES" ]; then export LC_MESSAGES; fi if [ -n "$LC_PAPER" ]; then export LC_PAPER; fi if [ -n "$LC_NAME" ]; then export LC_NAME; fi if [ -n "$LC_ADDRESS" ]; then export LC_ADDRESS; fi if [ -n "$LC_TELEPHONE" ]; then export LC_TELEPHONE; fi if [ -n "$LC_MEASUREMENT" ]; then export LC_MEASUREMENT; fi if [ -n "$LC_IDENTIFICATION" ]; then export LC_IDENTIFICATION; fi # End /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh EOF Then the /etc/locale file should be generated, as the root user: cat > /etc/locale.conf << EOF # Begin /etc/locale.conf LANG=$LANG # End /etc/locale.conf EOF If you plan to run an X (or Wayland) Window system, you may want to set up your X keyboard. The best way to do it is to retrieve the settings from /etc/sysconfig/console, and feed them to the blocaled daemon. As the root user: source /etc/sysconfig/console && KEYMAP=${KEYMAP:-us} && gdbus call --system \ --dest org.freedesktop.locale1 \ --object-path /org/freedesktop/locale1 \ --method org.freedesktop.locale1.SetVConsoleKeyboard \ "$KEYMAP" "$KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS" true true This should create or modify the Xorg configuration file (default is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf) to match the keyboard settings set in KEYMAP. Contents Installed Program Installed Library Installed Directory blocaled (in /usr/libexec) None /usr/share/blocaled Short Descriptions blocaled is the daemon implementing the org.freedesktop.locale1 D–Bus protocol blocaled