Unable to add/remove "formats" (languages) under "Regional Settings"

[spsf64]

Installed latest cinnamom (2.0.6) in xubuntu 13.10 using ppa. I'm in love with it" :)
I have my system default to English US, however I can't add USA to it...???
Also I cannot remove the formats already shown (Australia, Canada and UK), please see attached image.
Is there any solution? Is this a bug or my error (probably, lol!)
TIA

[clfarron4]

Which OS are you doing this on? In ArchLinux, you have to enable the locales in /etc/locale.gen and regenerate the set of locales available to the system before you have access to more locales.

[spsf64]

It happens in arch and ubuntu (xubuntu 13.10), this screenshot was in xubuntu.
I'll try this and report back, thank you

Edit: why can't I remove the languages (formats) already shown?

[clfarron4]

Edit: why can't I remove the languages (formats) already shown?

Not a clue.

How are you getting along anyways?

[spsf64]

No news... even with the latest updates I'm still unable to add and/or remove any languages

[dkogias]

Almost the same here on Fedora 19, cinnamon 2.0.6.

I can't remove existing formats; also, US English is missing.

[croutch]

I have the same problems like the rest here.

I use gentoo and i have set it up to have US-eng text everyware but swedish for keyboard. My settings have always working for me.
And i have triple checked my settings,they are like they should be.

In locale.gen i have
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
sv_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8
sv_SE ISO-8859-1

in /etc/conf.d/keymaps i have.
KEYMAP="sv-latin1"

In /etc/env.d/02locale i have. This get me eng output in terminal but also åäö in irssi.
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"

Cinnamon settings.
In regional-settings i have.
In language section i have US language.
In formats section that is empty for me,not able to add anything.
In keyboard layouts i have swedish,but when i click the keyboard image that jumps up, that shows US-keyboard.

And just in case today i added this in xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf.

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "se"
EndSection

But nothing helps to fix this problem for me.

[jbkt23]

I have the same issue with Fedora 20, Cinnamon version 2.0.13, I am unable to change the regional settings from those shown in the original post above.
As local user when issue the command $ locale in a terminal i get:
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_AU.utf8
LC_TIME=en_AU.utf8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_AU.utf8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

As root I get:
locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8
LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

I have found a post on archwiki that describes how to make changes to the locale settings outside of the DE here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/locale

[leigh123linux]

Does this help the US format issue?

gsettings set org.cinnamon.system.locale region en_US.utf8

[anandrkris]

Not sure, if this holds good after the below developments. Please close if these are already addressed.
http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/04/cinnamon-2-2/
http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/03/unified-locale-settings/

[anandrkris]

Language settings is part of mintlocale and new improvements have been done now. Guess, this should be addressed.
http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/10/improvements-in-mintlocale/

Input methods are now also supported. This is important to people who want to write Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and a few other languages which require characters or symbols which aren’t present on the keyboard. MintLocale now lets you choose your input method and quickly add support for them. It also tells you if required components are missing (typically if you’re missing a package for things to work correctly).

[vdcow]

@anandrkris This improvements are primary Mint specific. Moreover Cinnamon still doesn't have IBus support so the main part of changes is not very useful for users.

[clefebvre]

Locale handling and im are much more tied to package management, system layers and DMs than to the DE though. As you experienced in previous versions of Cinnamon, the locale settings were not only broken but their design was very confusing. We encourage all distributions out there to develop UI tools for their locale management. This is important and also cross DE (Xfce and MATE for instance do not handle this either).