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    • Trouble setting the desired locale

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    Good Morning,

    I have some trouble setting the locale the way I desire.

    On my RHEL 7 server with GUI I would like to set the 

    /etc/locale.conf
    like it is described in the Chapter 1, Sytem Administrators Guide. I would like to use the GUI in German language while getting terminal error output in POSIX format.

    After setting 

    LC_MESSAGES=C
    in 
    /etc/locale.conf
    and rebooting the system the GUI is in English language, too. Where is my mistake?

    Here is my current config:

    localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
                  LC_MESSAGES=C
       VC Keymap: de-nodeadkeys
      X11 Layout: de
     X11 Variant: nodeadkeys

cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C

    Regards,

    Jörg

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