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,
