Public bug reported:
When I'm logged into a non-admin user account, no matter how often I use
language-selector to switch to a different language, the menus all stay
in the old language. Or at least that was my experience with trying to
switch from English to German. Rebooting doesn't help, and neither does
trying to use sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales to change the system
language to "none". This version of Ubuntu Mate apparently insists that
there has to be a system language and that every user has to use that
system language. Very unhelpful in multilingual environments.
Note that I experienced the bug before I changed the system language to
German.
Version 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 6.14.0-27-generic x86_64
MATE 1.26.2
language-selector-gnome 0.227
(Might be a bug in an entirely different part of the system rather than
that package, though.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.227
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-27.27-generic 6.14.6
Uname: Linux 6.14.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Aug 12 23:33:18 2025
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-08-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" - Release amd64
(20250415.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.13
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.13, Python 3.13.3, python3-minimal, 3.13.3-1
PythonDetails: N/A
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug plucky
** Description changed:
When I'm logged into a non-admin user account, no matter how often I use
language-selector to switch to a different language, the menus all stay
in the old language. Or at least that was my experience with trying to
switch from English to German. Rebooting doesn't help, and neither does
trying to use sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales to change the system
language to "none". This version of Ubuntu Mate apparently insists that
there has to be a system language and that every user has to use that
system language. Very unhelpful in multilingual environments.
+
+ Note that I experienced the bug before I changed the system language to
+ German.
Version 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 6.14.0-27-generic x86_64
MATE 1.26.2
language-selector-gnome 0.227
(Might be a bug in an entirely different part of the system rather than
that package, though.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.227
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-27.27-generic 6.14.6
Uname: Linux 6.14.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Aug 12 23:33:18 2025
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-08-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" - Release amd64
(20250415.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.13
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
- LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
- PATH=(custom, no user)
- SHELL=/bin/bash
- XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
+ PATH=(custom, no user)
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
+ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.13, Python 3.13.3, python3-minimal, 3.13.3-1
PythonDetails: N/A
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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