For new users and local language setting

[sc74]

For the next version, would it be possible to run a script on first startup to request the language and geographic area for the time?

Indeed, new or basic ArchLinux users whose language is not English, it can be very complicated to correctly set the language for the vconsole, X11.

Going back to what Manjaro does, a suggestion would be to use the dialog package and a script.

An example that should of course be improved

#! /bin/bash

#clearing variables

TIMEZONE=""
LOCALE=""
X11KEYMAP=""

#Using Dialog to ask for user input for variables

  let i=0
W=()
while read -r line; do
	let i=$i+1
	W+=($line "")
done < <( timedatectl list-timezones )
TIMEZONE=$(dialog --clear --title "Manjaro ARM Installer" \
--menu "Choose your timezone!" 20 50 15 \
"${W[@]}" 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 3>&- \
)

let i=0
W=()
while read -r line; do
	let i=$i+1
	W+=($line "")
done < <( cat /etc/locale.gen | grep "UTF-8" | tail -n +2 | sed -e 's/^#*//' | awk '{print $1}' )
LOCALE=$(dialog --clear --title "AstroArch Installer" \
	--menu "Choose your locale!" 20 50 15 \
	"${W[@]}" 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 3>&- \
	)

let i=0
W=()
while read -r line; do
	let i=$i+1
	W+=($line "")
done < <( localectl list-keymaps )
CLIKEYMAP=$(dialog --clear --title "AstroArch Installer" \
	--menu "Choose your TTY keyboard layout:" 20 50 15 \
	"${W[@]}" 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 3>&- \
)

   let i=0
W=()
while read -r line; do
	let i=$i+1
	W+=($line "")
done < <( localectl list-x11-keymap-layouts )
X11KEYMAP=$(dialog --clear --title "AstroArch Installer" \
	--menu "Choose your X11 keyboard layout:" 20 50 15 \
	"${W[@]}" 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 3>&- \
)

#system setup

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/"$TIMEZONE" /etc/localtime
sed -i s/"#$LOCALE"/"$LOCALE"/g /etc/locale.gen
echo "LANG=$LOCALE" | tee --append $TMPDIR/root/etc/locale.conf
locale-gen
echo "KEYMAP=$CLIKEYMAP" | tee --append $TMPDIR/root/etc/vconsole.conf
echo 'Section "InputClass"' > $TMPDIR/root/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
echo 'Identifier "system-keyboard"' >> $TMPDIR/root/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
echo 'Option "XkbLayout" "us"' >> $TMPDIR/root/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
echo 'EndSection' >> $TMPDIR/root/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
sed -i s/"us"/"$X11KEYMAP"/ $TMPDIR/root/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
unset LANG
source /etc/profile.d/locale.sh

[MattBlack85]

superseded by #75