1) backup your current locale cp /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US.bak 2) change first_weekday value from 1 to 2 gedit /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US 3) generate new locale localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US 4) re-login and voil'a :)