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Am Freitag, den 23.12.2011, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Michael Hampicke: |
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> Hey there, |
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> I've been having some problems with GDM recently (freeze after reboot, |
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> freeze after suspend) so I thought I'd give lightdm a shot. |
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> So far everything works great, but I cannot set a language for a lightdm |
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> session. |
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> My system locale is set to en_US.utf8 because when working with command |
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> line tools I prefere if they talk english to me. |
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> But I like my Desktop (everything running under X) to be in german. With |
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> GDM that was no problem: just set the system locale to english and |
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> create a .dmrc file in the home directory where you set |
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> 'Language=de_DE.UTF-8' |
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> Lightdm ignores that file. After some google foo I found that if you |
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> edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf and set |
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> 'show-language-selector=true' you can choose a language before logging |
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> in (like with GDM) - however, I can choose what i wan't, my Desktop is |
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> still in english. |
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> So far it seems that nothing works, except setting the system's default |
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> locale to german in /etc/env.d/02locale - but that's not what I want. |
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> Do you have any thoughts? |
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As a temporary solution you may set your locale to de_DE.UTF-8 but |
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export LC_ALL="en_US" in the shell's rc file. |
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Regards, |
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