Language selection

[Alex Baer]

I am looking for a solution for this, too. Currently I am using a ~/.profile 
with just one line:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

(for German language setting with UTF-8 support).

But this is not a viable end-user solution, as it requires to edit a file and 
to know the exact syntax. A GUI option in the settings dialog would be much 
more comfortable.

The perfect approach, IMHO, is how it's done in KDE. As an end-users I can 
easily configure my desktop according to my locale, and will get German 
application UIs and correct currency and date formats. But at the same time, 
when I switch user to root, I still get US English messages, when a command 
returns an error. This is good, because it is much easier to find help on the 
web for US English messages than for, e. g., German messages.

You may consider this a feature request. :)

Best regards

gargamel

Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2012, 09:02:28 schrieb 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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