With empty LANGUAGE all software uses locale from LANG. But when it is set, I get this:
$ cat /etc/default/locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE="en_US:en" Chosen ru_RU.UTF8 on login... $ locale LANG=ru_RU.utf8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.utf8" LC_TIME="ru_RU.utf8" LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.utf8" LC_PAPER="ru_RU.utf8" LC_NAME="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ALL= $ cat .dmrc [Desktop] Language=ru_RU.utf8 Session=lightdm-xsession So, about that half of software... XFCE panel and menu title, config utils, crhomium, leafpad, nano, asunder, remmina are in English XFCE menu contents, date, iceweasel, libreoffice, virtualbox-qt, qbittorrent, audacity are in Russian. Which of them are buggy? Package versions I use: Package liblightdm-gobject-1-0 p A 1.10.2-2 testing 900 i A 1.10.3-1 unstable 400 Package lightdm: p 1.10.2-2 testing 900 i 1.10.3-1 unstable 400 Package lightdm-gtk-greeter: i 1.8.5-1 testing,unstable 900 I`ve also downgraded to 1.10.2, same results. So lightdm does not touch LANGUAGE at all, even if it is set and conflicts with chosen locale. But LANG and LANGUAGE should be consonant in order for all software to agree on same thing. When LANGUAGE is empty, I get no conflict. (I do not remember the reason for adding LANGUAGE to /etc/default/locale or whether I did it manually or by some config tool. But the reason was valid enough for me to do it on every machine I deal with). I think, lightdm should be prepared to handle LANGUAGE var. Also regardless of LANGUAGE lightdm is still getting stuck on first chosen locale for me. Logout, change language, login, get same language. Only restarting lightdm helps. I thought it could occur because of previous session leftovers like gpg-agent or gnome-keyring-daemon, but killing them did not help. What info do you require on this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org