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Hello,
Today I did what Fehlix told me:
Take LC_ALL out of /etc/default, remove the line LC_ALL, this is not meant to be set within /etc/default.
If LC_ALL is set even to in empty value, your system get's confused.


And verified that the contents of /etc/default/locale does not cause any problem ...

Hi Fehlix, Eadwine,

Take LC_ALL out of /etc/default, remove the line LC_ALL, this is not meant to be set within /etc/default.
If LC_ALL is set even to in empty value, your system get's confused.


I will do that later and let you know the results. Thanks.

You came up with a workaround.. what is ...

Hi,
Finally I came up with a workaround and solved the problem, momentarily. Thanks for all your great effort and valuable time. I would not say it is "solved", but I can say we can proceed to "close" the case. Cheers.

Here the results:

Updating the system today, from ver. 4.18 to 4.20 ended up with the same issue, so I restored the timeshift backup.

First make sure, you get rid of LC_ALL and reboot.

/etc/default
$ cat locale
# File generated by update-locale
LANG=es_UY.UTF-8
LC_ALL=


Reboot the system ...

Perhaps it would be of help to see the list of updates, since the state of the system now is with XFCE ver. 4.18, in the list of updates, I can not see the whisker-menu, when I can see the other xfce tools:

actualización completa
Leyendo lista de paquetes...
Creando árbol de dependencias ...

I have more information, I do not know if it would be of any help:

I have timeshift snapshot of the system, before updating to XFCE 4.20 (when it was ver. 4.18).
I restored it and the XFCE tools mentioned before (including whisker menu) are in spanish, I mean they are ok, full 100%. It seems the ...

Besides, it is not only happening with whisker menu, but also with the other xfce4 tools (I mean power manager, notes, appfinder, clipman, display settings, session logout and so on), they all also appear in English.

As you no doubt have seen, I tried to change the default language from:
es_UY.UTF ...

Hi,

Following is the result of your last query:
$ cat /etc/default/locale
# File generated by update-locale
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
#LC_ALL=es_UY.UTF-8


And the output of: "ls -adnl /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES"
$ ls -adnl /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 may 12 2024 /usr/share ...

It's something weird:

Although I open synaptic package manager and fully uninstall "xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin" and install it again, then, to validate, after install I verify the installed files, so you can see:

https://i.postimg.cc/gXHSBSwL/whisker-menu-validate-files.jpg

But, if you do a "ls ...

Here's a screenshot of the repos defined within synaptic package manager: