Language selection

[Peggy Kutyla]

Hi,

You could try Slim who have no language selector but who is lightweight
and try to set language with pam.
Look at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM#SLiM_and_Environment_Variables
I think you could adapt this to Debian.
Well, that's not as easy as a mouse clic...

http://slim.berlios.de/

Le 07/12/2012 07:30, Jaap Winius a écrit :
> 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
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