Greg Wooledge schreef op 24-12-2022 om
18:50:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:21:44PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:On Saturday, December 24, 2022 09:44:49 AM Nicolas George wrote:Before asking for help about a command-line, type: unset LC_ALL export LC_MESSAGES=C … and re-run the command.That sounds like good advice, but then the "user" (the person asking for help) needs to know how to restore his system, so instructions should be included to do that."Afterward, simply exit from this terminal." None of these changes are permanent. An even simpler set of instructions would be: 1) Open a new terminal, or run a new instance of your shell. 2) export LC_ALL=C 3) Run your comands. Paste the commands and their results into the body of your email. 4) Exit from this shell/terminal. Thank you greg and others for your expert answers. as a kind of christmas present i got xfce4 going again! going this morning! steef |