Gajim unsupported locale setting on foreign distro

Gajim unsupported locale setting on foreign distro

[Joseph Turner]

Hello,

Running Guix 1.3.0-12.9bbbac6 on top of a foreign distro, Debian 11 (bullseye).

Gajim was installed with `guix install gajim`, and it works well.
However, I am unable to make use of `gajim-remote`, which returns the
error:


unsupported locale setting
No translations found
Dirs searched: [PosixPath('/home/joseph/.local/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/py9ak4g4cvikpcblj2ksw8l9agsjpn1m-shared-mime-info-1.15/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/a6fzx4qgriak4aa271nlp4fzkanx5jk9-gtk+-3.24.24/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/kksi41cjrrabsxsmpk8asj5grinlnd23-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/3374zddwfb0m8711k2jrvhwr1s2fkvq3-glib-2.62.6/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/y53gni9gkgj8zyj6sjryan2fnkbfvpqn-gajim-1.3.3/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/py9ak4g4cvikpcblj2ksw8l9agsjpn1m-shared-mime-info-1.15/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/a6fzx4qgriak4aa271nlp4fzkanx5jk9-gtk+-3.24.24/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/kksi41cjrrabsxsmpk8asj5grinlnd23-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/3374zddwfb0m8711k2jrvhwr1s2fkvq3-glib-2.62.6/share'), PosixPath('/gnu/store/y53gni9gkgj8zyj6sjryan2fnkbfvpqn-gajim-1.3.3/share'), PosixPath('/home/joseph/.guix-extra-profiles/base/base/share'), PosixPath('/home/joseph/.guix-profile/share'), PosixPath('/usr/local/share'), PosixPath('/usr/share')]


As described in the manual, I ran

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

The export command has also been placed in my .bash_profile. I see a
bunch of locales inside /home/joseph/.guix-profile/lib/locale/ 

$ echo $GUIX_LOCPATH/
/home/joseph/.guix-profile/lib/locale/

Should `/home/joseph/.guix-profile/lib/locale/` be in the list of dirs
searched by gajim-remote?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best,

Joseph

Re: Gajim unsupported locale setting on foreign distro

[David Lecompte]

Hello,

Le mardi 23 novembre 2021 à 01:43 -0700, Joseph Turner a écrit :
> Running Guix 1.3.0-12.9bbbac6 on top of a foreign distro, Debian 11
> (bullseye).
>
> Gajim was installed with `guix install gajim`, and it works well.
> However, I am unable to make use of `gajim-remote`, which returns the
> error:

I am using Gajim from Guix on top of Trisquel 9. When I try gajim-
remote, I have a message that D-Bus is not installed or the Python
module is missing:

$ gajim-remote
D-Bus n’est pas présent sur cette machine ou le module python est
manquant

For some reason, even with export LC_ALL=C, the message is still in
French. I have D-Bus running on Trisquel as well as Python2 and Python3
installed and haven't been able to identify what module could be
missing.

When I asked on the Gajim support channel about this (not sure exactly
when, perhaps 2-3 months ago), I was told not to use gajim-remote but
rather some other tool to send D-Bus messages to Gajim. So I am not
sure whether gajim-remote is still functional and so far, I gave up on
this.

By the way, yesterday, after I did "guix pull" and "guix package -u",
the update failed on Gajim. I'll try with another computer running
Trisquel 9 and Guix to see whether the same occurs.

David.

Re: Gajim unsupported locale setting on foreign distro

[Joseph Turner]

Thank you, David. Good to know that I'll need a separate tool to handle
sending D-Bus messages to Gajim.

Best,

Joseph