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Hello,
The latest IceWM update (icewm-3.7.1-2.el8.x86_64 from past week) on Oracle Linux 8.11 has changed something in the icewm-menu-fdo in the sense of how it handles LANG and LC_* environment variables.
My locale settings is like this:
[opc@sws ~]$ set | grep -E 'LANG|LC_'
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_ADDRESS=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_NAME=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_TIME=cs_CZ.UTF-8
With this setup the icewm-menu-fdo produces some non-latin texts:
[opc@sws ~]$ icewm-menu-fdo | grep ^menu
menu "Audio" applications-multimedia {
menu "Science" folder {
menu "Settings" folder {
menu "System" folder {
menu "Video" applications-multimedia {
menu "·𐑦𐑯𐑑𐑼𐑯𐑧𐑑" applications-internet {
menu "𐑐𐑮𐑴𐑜𐑮𐑨𐑥𐑦𐑙" applications-development {
menu "𐑕𐑬𐑯𐑛 𐑯 𐑝𐑦𐑛𐑦𐑴" applications-multimedia {
menu "𐑜𐑮𐑨𐑓𐑦𐑒𐑕" applications-graphics {
menu "𐑜𐑱𐑥𐑟" applications-games {
menu "𐑧𐑛𐑿𐑒𐑱𐑖𐑩𐑯" applications-science {
menu "𐑨𐑒𐑕𐑧𐑕𐑼𐑦𐑟" applications-accessories {
menu "𐑪𐑓𐑦𐑕" applications-office {
menu "𐑳𐑞𐑼" applications-other {
I've found out that setting LC_MESSAGES to C or single en (without US), it works:
[opc@sws ~]$ LC_MESSAGES=C icewm-menu-fdo | grep ^menu
menu "Accessories" applications-accessories {
menu "Audio" applications-multimedia {
menu "Education" applications-science {
menu "Games" applications-games {
menu "Graphics" applications-graphics {
menu "Internet" applications-internet {
menu "Office" applications-office {
menu "Other" applications-other {
menu "Programming" applications-development {
menu "Science" folder {
menu "Settings" folder {
menu "Sound & Video" applications-multimedia {
menu "System" folder {
menu "Video" applications-multimedia {
[opc@sws ~]$ LC_MESSAGES=en icewm-menu-fdo | grep ^menu
menu "Accessories" applications-accessories {
menu "Audio" applications-multimedia {
menu "Education" applications-science {
menu "Games" applications-games {
menu "Graphics" applications-graphics {
menu "Internet" applications-internet {
menu "Office" applications-office {
menu "Other" applications-other {
menu "Programming" applications-development {
menu "Science" folder {
menu "Settings" folder {
menu "Sound & Video" applications-multimedia {
menu "System" folder {
menu "Video" applications-multimedia {
With the _US it produces the wrong output.
To workaround the issue, one can create a wrapper script for icewm-menu-fdo with overridden LC_MESSAGES=en and use that wrapper script in ~/.icewm/menu in the includeprog directive instead of the default program.
[opc@sws ~]$ cd .icewm/
[opc@sws .icewm]$ cat icewm-menu-fdo
#!/bin/bash
LC_MESSAGES=C /usr/bin/icewm-menu-fdo "$@"
exit $?
[opc@sws .icewm]$ cat menu
# This is an example for icewm menu definition file.
# It will be installed as /usr/share/icewm/menu.
# Place your variants in /etc/icewm or in $HOME/.icewm since
# modifications to this file will be overwritten when you reinstall icewm.
#
prog "GNOME Terminal" utilities-terminal /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
separator
prog "/usr/bin/xterm" xterm /usr/bin/xterm
prog urxvt xterm urxvt -bg black -cr green -fg white -C -sl 500
prog gedit fte gedit
prog NEdit nedit nedit
prog Firefox firefox firefox
prog Hexchat xchat hexchat
prog Gimp gimp gimp
includeprog /home/opc/.icewm/icewm-menu-fdo --sep-before --no-sep-others
menufile Programs folder programs
menufile Tool_bar folder toolbar
System Information:
[opc@sws ~]$ cat /etc/oracle-release
Oracle Linux Server release 8.10
[opc@sws ~]$ rpm -qa | grep icewm | sort
icewm-data-3.7.1-2.el8.noarch
icewm-minimal-session-3.7.1-2.el8.noarch
icewm-themes-3.7.1-2.el8.noarch
icewm-3.7.1-2.el8.x86_64
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