On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 09:18:17PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > So I think you should use export LANG= in the above .xsessionrc and it > would correctly set the LANG in the child session.
Done > Now, I have no idea why the saved .dmrc is not correctly loaded for you, > it might help to look at lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeters logs. I logged after having removed .dmrc and /var/cache/lightdm/dmrc/simon.dmrc. It made no difference. I logged with hide-users true and false. It made no difference. The language selector is always at Dutch, which is the second entry in the list, but the system-wide locale. It does not change when I select a different user. Herewith a few more data, reporting the locale before and after .xsessionrc, and the lightdm logs. Action: Select english in the language selector, log in. 1) Report of locale settings in .xsessionrc: before .xsessionrc LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_TIME="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_NAME="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="nl_NL.UTF-8" LC_ALL= after LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_ALL= export GDM_LANG='en_US.utf8' export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' export LANGUAGE='en' 2) locale settings in XFCE, after login: LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=en LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_ALL= declare -x LANG="en_US.utf8" declare -x LANGUAGE="en" Note that GDM_LANG has disappeard, and that the output format of the export command has changed, possibly due to different shells: dash for .xsessionrc and bash in the X session. 3) lightdm log file Note that this is not the first login [+244.74s] DEBUG: Seat: Active display server stopped, starting greeter [+244.74s] DEBUG: Seat: Creating greeter session [+244.74s] DEBUG: Seat: Setting XDG_SEAT=seat0 [+244.74s] DEBUG: Seat: Creating display server of type x [+244.74s] DEBUG: Seat: Starting local X display [+244.74s] DEBUG: Using VT 7 [+244.74s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log [+244.74s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 [+244.74s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Launching X Server [+244.74s] DEBUG: Launching process 4302: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch [+244.74s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0 [+244.74s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7 [+244.86s] DEBUG: Got signal 10 from process 4302 [+244.86s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Got signal from X server :0 [+244.86s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Connecting to XServer :0 [+244.86s] DEBUG: Seat: Display server ready, starting session authentication [+244.86s] DEBUG: Session: Setting XDG_VTNR=7 [+244.86s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Started with service 'lightdm-greeter', username 'lightdm' [+244.88s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Authentication complete with return value 0: Success [+244.88s] DEBUG: Seat: Session authenticated, running command [+244.88s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Setting XDG_VTNR=7 [+244.88s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-gtk-greeter [+244.88s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log [+244.90s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7 [+244.94s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Greeter connected version=1.8.5 [+245.31s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Greeter start authentication for simon [+245.31s] DEBUG: Seat: Setting XDG_SEAT=seat0 [+245.31s] DEBUG: Session: Setting XDG_VTNR=7 [+245.31s] DEBUG: Session pid=4334: Started with service 'lightdm', username 'simon' [+245.32s] DEBUG: Session pid=4334: Got 1 message(s) from PAM [+245.32s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s) [+267.43s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Continue authentication [+267.46s] DEBUG: Session pid=4334: Authentication complete with return value 0: Success [+267.46s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Authenticate result for user simon: Success [+267.47s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: User simon authorized [+267.47s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Greeter sets language en_US.utf8 [+267.48s] DEBUG: Writing /home/simon/.dmrc [+267.56s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Greeter requests session xfce [+267.57s] DEBUG: Writing /home/simon/.dmrc [+267.63s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping greeter; display server will be re-used for user session [+267.63s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Sending SIGTERM [+267.65s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Greeter closed communication channel [+267.65s] DEBUG: Session pid=4307: Exited with return value 0 [+267.65s] DEBUG: Seat: Session stopped [+267.65s] DEBUG: Seat: Greeter stopped, running session [+267.65s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1 [+267.65s] DEBUG: Session pid=4334: Setting XDG_VTNR=7 [+267.65s] DEBUG: Session pid=4334: Running command /etc/X11/Xsession startxfce4 [+267.65s] DEBUG: Session pid=4334: Logging to .xsession-errors [+267.67s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7 lightdm-gtk-greeter log: (lightdm-gtk-greeter:4316): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_shell_parse_argv: assertion `command_line != NULL' failed ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:4316): WARNING **: Failed to open sessions directory: Fout bij openen van map ‘/usr/share/lightdm/sessions’: Bestand of map bestaat niet ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:4316): WARNING **: Failed to open sessions directory: Fout bij openen van map ‘/usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions’: Bestand of map bestaat niet ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:4316): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Openen van bestand ‘/home/simon/.face’ mislukt: Bestand of map bestaat niet End of reports Note that the greeter writes to .dmrc but does not report reading from it. I have the strong impression that the greeter does not set LANG but writes it to .dmrc, from which it is read and set in the session at a later stage, after .xsessionrc was run. Note also that my session in .dmrc is reported as 'xfce', while I see in reports by other users 'lightdm-xsession'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org