Raven Calendar first day of the week

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Hoi, this one is puzzling me for a few weeks :slight_smile:

How to change the first day of the week in Raven Calendar from Sunday to Monday? (Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS)

I’ve tried change LC_TIME locale, searching for a GNOME setting, looking at Raven source code - but not luck.

TIA

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Hi @mojjo!

Indeed, this setting depends on the language settings you are using.
However, it is possible to change the first day of the week in gnome-calendar.

To check your language settings, enter locale | grep LANG=.
The result for me is: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

Edit the file corresponding to your language settings with sufficient rights (for me, it’s the “fr_FR” file):

gedit 2> /dev/null admin:///usr/share/i18n/locales/fr_FR

Press “Ctrl f”, search for ‘first’ and change the value of “first_weekday”:
first_weekday 1

Save and regenerate locales: sudo locale-gen

Log out, then log back in.


Sunday (dimanche in French) is now the first day of the week:

first_weekday
first_weekday415×673 45.1 KB

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Hi @jlb, thanks for a quick response.

I did a mistake in my original steps, in trying to modify the week parameter in the locale. After adding first_weekday 2 to the locale, and updating the locale + relogin, Raven correctly shows the calendar. :partying_face:

Thanks for your help!

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