Language selection

[Sergio]

On 12/07/2012 04:30 AM, Jaap Winius wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> What's the best solution for Xfce desktop language selection?
>
> My site uses Debian squeeze workstations that need support for both
> English and Dutch. Currently we use gdm, which has few dependencies and a
> greeter with a nice little language selector.
>
> Soon, however, we'll be upgrading to Debian wheezy, in which gdm has been
> dropped in favor of gdm3 (which has far too many Gnome dependencies).
> Unfortunately, the latter has no language selector. Nor does kdm (which
> also has too many dependencies), xdm, or wdm. Lightdm does have a
> language selector when lightdm-gtk-greeter is also installed, but this
> selector doesn't work due to a bug that's present in both the Debian
> wheezy (and sid) and experimental versions of these packages.
>
> With no language selector in the greeter, Gnome desktop users are now
> apparently expected to set this by using the gnome-control-center or the
> the DBus interface. Xfce, however, does not seem to have this option.
>
> A method that I do not want to use is to set wheezy's default locale to
> English or Dutch. I want to leave that choice up to the users who share
> these workstations, and as sysadmin I prefer to use 'none' for the
> default locale anyway.
>
> My current strategy for wheezy is simply to keep the old version of gdm
> working as long as I can, but I wish I had a better solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jaap
> _______________________________________________

I'm not in Xfce right now but it does have a language selector, IIRC. 
You just uncheck 'Use system default' and choose the language.

IIRC, LXDM also has a language selector.