** Changed in: gdm
Status: New => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428927
Title:
Languages list empty at login screen, even though language-support-ar
is installed
Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager:
Expired
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gdm
After dist-upgrade from Jaunty 9.04 to Karmic 9.10 (via update-
manager), gdm no longer displays a language list at the login screen
(after clicking my username) via clicking the "Languages" drop-down
list -> "Other"... It's just BLANK... However, the input languages
list is displayed just fine...
I have installed language-support-ar previously, which in turn
installed language-pack-ar and language-pack-ar-base. Also, language-
pack-en and language-pack-en-base are installed... So what gives?
$ cat /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
ar_EG.UTF-8 UTF-8
$ cat /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
$ cat /var/lib/locales/supported.d/ar
ar_EG.UTF-8 UTF-8
# locale-gen
Generating locales...
ar_EG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
# apt-cache policy gdm
gdm:
Installed: 2.27.90-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 2.27.90-0ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 2.27.90-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
As a temporary workaround (and for testing), I edited my ~/.dmrc file
and changed it's contents from:
~$ cat .dmrc
[Desktop]
Session=LXDE
Language=en_US.UTF-8
Layout=us
to:
[Desktop]
Session=LXDE
Language=ar_EG.UTF-8
Layout=us
and reloaded gdm via /etc/init.d/gdm
GDM then displays Arabic (Egypt) in the languages list upon login...
and after reboot, English (US) and Arabic (Egypt) are still displayed
when I click on my username because they're now cached as recently
used languages..
So why isn't gdm detecting the currently installed language by itself?
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