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w-locale

w-locale — Show and switch the system UI language (LANG).

Usage

Usage: w-locale <command> [args]

Info: Show and switch the system UI language (LANG).

Commands:
  status [--porcelain]   Show the current LANG
  list [--porcelain] [--names]
                         List selectable UTF-8 locales (--names adds each
                         language's own name and country, tab-separated)
  set <locale>           Switch LANG (root; generates the locale; needs relogin)
  help                   Show this help

Config: $CONF   Catalog: $SUPPORTED

Exit codes: 0 success · 1 runtime/validation error · 2 usage

Examples:
  w-locale status
  sudo w-locale set ru_RU.UTF-8

This page is generated from the command's own help text (w-docs-refgen). The live version of the same text on a W machine: w-locale help.