Steps to show an example when this issue matters: * English install from a US location * Change formats from g-c-c to en_DK.UTF-8 - to get reasonable date formats - this changes both "region" and ~/.pam_environment * Install French from Language Support * Change formats from Language Support to fr_FR.UTF-8 - this changes ~/.pam_environment but not "region" * Relogin
Result: $ cat .pam_environment LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_NAME=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.UTF-8 PAPERSIZE=a4 $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_NAME=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ALL= -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722002 Title: Ignore the "region" gsettings value Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: The /usr/bin/gnome-session wrapper sets some LC_* variables based on the "region" gsettings value. Since we rely on ~/.pam_environment for those variables, setting them from /usr/bin/gnome-session is redundant, and may occasionally cause unexpected behavior. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1722002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
