Language selection

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl> [2012-12-07 08:05]:
> 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.

The LightDM language selector can be fixed by rebuilding LightDM
with the two patches attached to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1074946 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1019314.
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Guido Berhoerster