[gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm

[gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm

[Michael Hampicke]

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?

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm

[Michael Mol]

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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm

[Michael Hampicke]

> 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.

Yeah I did, everything is working fine, except playing videos files
using the xv video out and ati-drivers.
But there's already a bugreport on bugzilla:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391193

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm

[Aljosha Papsch]

Am Freitag, den 23.12.2011, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Michael Hampicke:
> 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?
> 

As a temporary solution you may set your locale to de_DE.UTF-8 but
export LC_ALL="en_US" in the shell's rc file.

Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm

[Michael Hampicke]

> As a temporary solution you may set your locale to de_DE.UTF-8 but
> export LC_ALL="en_US" in the shell's rc file.

Well, I can live with that - for now :) Thx

Still hope lightdm will behave like GDM in the future. If you google
around you find some bugs related to "set language" issues, so there's
still hope.