[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

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[Expired for gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no
activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Expired

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[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Unfortunately I can't make sense of the information you have provided so
far. The locale configuration is screwed up somehow, but none of the two
files where such configuration is normally saved seems to be involved.
You reported that "Apply System-Wide" makes a difference, and that
precludes quite a few candidate files.

I don't know how to reproduce the behavior you describe, and so far I
see no confirmed bug in any of the packages which are involved in
language/locale settings. Can you add anything else to shed some light
on it?

Possibly you simply need help with cleaning up the configuration of your
system, and then some support forum such as  is
the place to go.

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[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

[Michael Satke]

Overrides: That is interesting. I ssh-ed frequently until about a year ago 
(from machines inside my WIFI), but not recently.
_

dpkg-query -W gdm3

gdm33.28.2-0ubuntu1.2
_

cat /etc/environment

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

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[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

/etc/default/locale and ~/.pam_environment are the only files which are
written to via the GUIs, and both of them look normal to me. The locale
output, however, is not consistent with those files. With that
~/.pam_environment file it ought to look like this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

So the variables set by ~/.pam_environment seem to be overridden somehow
by settings somewhere else. Actually, I see in the attached
ProcEnviron.txt file that every single locale category has been set
explicitly (to German) - also variables which are not set by any of
those two files such as LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES.

More questions:

Are you possibly accessing the PC remotely from some other machine via
SSH or something?

What's the output from these commands:

  dpkg-query -W gdm3

  cat /etc/environment

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[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

[Michael Satke]

Gunnar, thank you for your help. Here are my results:
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locale

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de:en
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
__

cat /etc/default/locale

LANG="de_AT.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="de_AT:de"

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cat ~/.pam_environment

LANGUAGEDEFAULT=en
LANGDEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
PAPERSIZE=a4
__

I did not do any manual language configuring.

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[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hmm.. That's a mystery.

Can you please run the following commands and show the complete output
in a comment here:

locale

cat /etc/default/locale

cat ~/.pam_environment

Also, can you recall that you have configured languages/locales manually
somehow?

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[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

[Michael Satke]

Gunnar, of course i logged out and in. Reboots did not help either.

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[Bug 1778225] Re: Can't switch UI language for single users, only system-wide

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I assume it was the Language Support tool you used. How did it "not
work"? You need to relogin before the new display language gets
effective.

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