Language selection

[Sergio]

On 12/11/2012 11:03 PM, Jaap Winius wrote:
> Quoting Peggy Kutyla <peggy.kutyla at laposte.net>:
>
>> 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
>
> And then write a script that users can launch from the desktop to add a
> line like 'LANG="nl_NL.UTF-8"' ... or not, in which case the desktop
> environment language will remain English. Of course, any changes will
> require the user to log out and back in again, which is not as
> efficient, so for now I'll continue to use gdm, write that script if I'm
> forced to, and either way look forward to implementing an up-to-date
> greeter with a working language selector some time in the future.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jaap

Back when LXDM was just starting, some guy at sidux packaged it.
Maybe look at their repos (aptosid) if they have the latest version.
LXDM is just as light as SLiM and the language selector works fine.