From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Re97x-0005dI-UM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:41:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C99F421C104; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:41:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860F221C0E8 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnr5 with SMTP id r5so7885781ggn.40 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:40:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9z0x85LaKSliVIdkZKxXKmIvQtFvdp05qAjRE36ffUE=; b=LByyLhZ9GJNUyn0CXeOCLGgCPaJ2M2qIicvzUFMqlv45q9DYxHzBKtkIMbSepWmHjB 8N97JVFqXYGFrLTkOJO3WpFraVSFg9OJtgjuzakMVhuaj+JGw7anIKyrjEK7iKaCn2FN /oEGEYJ/jOBJDeZDrdXsoNWdMjjceyv5oBq9U= Received: by 10.50.190.196 with SMTP id gs4mr14906579igc.14.1324662042911; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:40:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.9.92] ([76.236.174.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i2sm11385842igq.6.2011.12.23.09.40.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:40:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EF4BD11.2000206@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:40:33 -0500 From: Michael Mol User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20111121 Firefox/8.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm References: <4EF4B7BC.6000703@hadt.biz> In-Reply-To: <4EF4B7BC.6000703@hadt.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d1b55c0c-66f1-4a8a-9098-08357207a340 X-Archives-Hash: 5e11e13bd2b9057a4bef2848ac623a19 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.