问题
I have recently installed debian "testing" jessie RC betta. I wanted to personalized system-wide the gnome-terminal by changing the custom default terminal size in the file
/usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm. In fact, I just changed with gedit the the col and li numbers in the following line :co#80:it#8:li#24:\. After I did that, I was not able to launch any more the gnome terminal 3.12.3. I got the following output:
~$ gnome-terminal
(process:2879): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8
Of course I undo everything in the xterm file but it did not work out. I also reinstalled the gnome-terminal, but nothing.
I searched in the internet and found the same gnome-terminal's error here. Hence, I decided to check whether the "localte" setup could help me out. For that, I ran the following commands:
~$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
VC Keymap: de
X11 Layout: de
X11 Model: pc105
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
~$ sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
~$ cat /etc/default/locale
# File generated by update-locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
~$ . /etc/default/locale
after it I just got rid of the Gtk-Warning. But the gnome-terminal still cannot be launched.
Do you think I need to regenerate the xterm file? if yes, how do I do that?
Thanks in advance.
PD: Btw, funny thing is that the "locale" setup goes away if I restart the computer. In order to keep it persistent, I had to export from my .bashrc the following environmental variables:
export LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26250265/gnome-3-12-cannot-be-launched-locale-does-not-help-out