Command Line and Keys

Documentation / Contents - Location and Time

• Overview of Location and Time
  • What It Changes, and What It Does Not
  • The Window
  • The Buttons
• The Time and Location Tab
  • Choosing a Timezone
    • Follow system timezone
    • 12-hour clock (AM/PM)
  • Location
• The Language and Formats Tab
  • Locale (LANG)
  • Language
  • Currency
  • The Sample Line
• The Environment Tab
  • Session Exports
  • The Preview
  • The Shell Startup File
    • Which File Is Detected
    • How the Write Behaves
• Files and Settings
  • The Configuration File
  • The Keys
  • Environment Variables Read
• Command Line and Keys
  • Command Line
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
• What This Panel Does Not Do
  • Out of Scope by Design
  • Not Built
  • Known Rough Edges
• Fonts, Colours, and the Rest

Other cards

• Copyright Information

Command Line

cylocalize                      open the panel
cylocalize --selftest           run the built-in checks, no display needed
cylocalize --paths              print the configuration path and values
cylocalize --print-shell-block  print the shell export block on standard output
cylocalize --help               usage

--print-shell-block is the honest way to see what would be written before you let the panel write it. It reads the configuration file and prints the block, nothing else.

--selftest covers the configuration round trip, the shell block build, rc detection, writing and removing a block, the zone scan, and the currency seed. It needs no display.

Keyboard

There are no accelerators and no mnemonics in this panel, and no F1 key.

What works is what the toolkit gives for free:

• Tab moves between the text fields.
• The text fields take the usual editing keys.
• The zone list and the currency list take the arrow keys, and Return in the zone list copies the highlighted zone into the field.

The buttons, the toggles and the three tabs are MOUSE ONLY. Apply, Close, Reset, From locale, Write shell block, Remove block, every toggle and every tab must be clicked. This is a real limitation, not an omission from this page.

Mouse

• Click a tab along the bottom edge to change pages.
• Click a zone or a currency in a list to put it in the field above.
• Click a toggle to change it.

See Also

• Files and Settings
• What This Panel Does Not Do