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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:40:33 -0500
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm
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Michael Hampicke wrote:
> Hey there,
> I've been having some problems with GDM recently (freeze after reboot,
> freeze after suspend) so I thought I'd give lightdm a shot.
> So far everything works great, but I cannot set a language for a lightdm
> session.
>
> My system locale is set to en_US.utf8 because when working with command
> line tools I prefere if they talk english to me.
> But I like my Desktop (everything running under X) to be in german. With
> GDM that was no problem: just set the system locale to english and
> create a .dmrc file in the home directory where you set
> 'Language=de_DE.UTF-8'
>
> Lightdm ignores that file. After some google foo I found that if you
> edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf and set
> 'show-language-selector=true' you can choose a language before logging
> in (like with GDM) - however, I can choose what i wan't, my Desktop is
> still in english.
>
> So far it seems that nothing works, except setting the system's default
> locale to german in /etc/env.d/02locale - but that's not what I want.
>
> Do you have any thoughts?
>
Not directly related to your question, but perhaps related to your problem:
Did you rebuild all of the xf86 drivers and modules after updating xorg
from 1.10 to 1.11? I didn't run into a problem until xscreensaver kicked in.