Robert, I disagree about lightdm not touching the locale setting. If there are other ways to login to the system, fine. That doesn't prevent to read .dmrc which has the correct locale selected by the user.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793366 Title: Sets $LANG to invalid value "de" Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: lightdm When I moved from gdm to lightdm, I now get an invalid locale: $ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Kann LC_ALL nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden LANG=de LANGUAGE=de:en LC_CTYPE="de" LC_NUMERIC="de" LC_TIME="de" LC_COLLATE="de" LC_MONETARY="de" LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_PAPER="de" LC_NAME="de" LC_ADDRESS="de" LC_TELEPHONE="de" LC_MEASUREMENT="de" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de" LC_ALL= It seems it takes the "de" from my ~/.dmrc, which was set up that way by gdm: $ cat .dmrc [Desktop] Language=de Langlist=de:en LCMess=de_DE.UTF-8 Layout=us Session=gnome From that, gdm sets LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=de:en while lightdm sets LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 LANG=de LANGUAGE=de:en I'm not entirely sure how gdm derives an appropriate $LANG locale name from just a language name. I'm subscribing Gunnar about this. BTW, I noticed that the current lightdm does not have a language/keyboard chooser at all any more. It used to have one a week or two ago? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/793366/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
