Home subfolders in English (not in my locale)

[rquin66]

Hi all,

Yesterday I installed kubuntu selecting Catalan as my locale. Installation went well, but I noticed the subfolders in my home directory are named in English.

I've tried the following (that worked some time ago in a similar situation):

$ LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8 xdg-user-dirs-update --force

... this should change the contents of ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Escriptori"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Baixades"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imatges"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Públic"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Plantilles"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"

..but it fails to do so. The names are still in English.

¿Does anyone know of a solution?

Thanks in advance an have a good day.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Welcome.

Is there a file /home/$USER/.config/user-dirs.locale with the content ca_ES ?

And perhaps man xdg-user-dirs-update (and the pages this man page points to) can additionally help you?

[rquin66]

Hi Schwarzer Kater,

I tried to change my home folders' names to Catalan in every possible way I could but without success. I gave up and went on to try other distros.Until yesterday, when I installed kubuntu again.

And I think i found a solution. I'm not completely sure, as I tried MANY things, but here we go:

1. I changed de contents of /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults to the following:

DESKTOP=Escriptori
DOWNLOAD=Baixades
TEMPLATES=Plantilles
PUBLICSHARE=Públic
DOCUMENTS=Documents
MUSIC=Música
PICTURES=Imatges
VIDEOS=Vídeos

2. Then I ran:

LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8 xdg-user-dirs-update --force

... and it did the trick!

Thanks a lot