whenever i try to run a suckless app like dmenu or suckless terminal it gives the following error:
XOpenIM failed. Could not open input device.
how can i fix this error and be able to run dmenu?
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I solved it by doing
export LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
I put this line in my ~/.bashrc and it works fine now, thanks.
Ensure you don't have any cruft in pacman.conf, i.e.
NoExtract = locale...
Changing locale to en_US-UTF-8, reboot, then back to en_GB-UTF-8 and reboot, worked for me.
