This bug cost me a lot of time. After last year's Turkish/Turkic- specific issues, it is quite frustrating to suffer from this generic one this year.
FWIW, the issue might not be in language-selector per se: +: 1) .pam_environment is updated after making the non-system-wide change in language-selector (so if that's supposed to be sufficient, then the bug is elsewhere) -: 1) .profile isn't updated by updated after making the non-system-wide change in language-selector (e.g., if it's supposed to be, then this is a language-selector bug) 2) as of now, desktop environment appears to only respect /etc/default/locale and/or /etc/environment Despite the fact that single-user machines have a work-around, this bug should be given an escalated Importance, because it's likely to waste people's time if they aren't using a multi-user machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993818 Title: Language selector fails to set language and regional formats on user level (Precise) Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin (64 bit) last weekend and noticed that changing the display language and regional formats via language selector does not have any effect unless changes are applied system-wide. Steps to reproduce: 1. On a clean Precise install, navigate to System Settings -> Language support 2. Select desired display language (e.g. German) by moving it to the top of the list; select desired regional format setting (e.g. German/Germany) from the "Regional Formats" tab 3. Log out and back in, open a terminal and run "locale" Expected result: Display language and regional formats are set according to user's choice -- i.e. here German and German/Germany. Terminal shows that all locale variables are set to "de" and "de_DE" respectively. What happened instead: The display language remains set to (American) English and terminal reports that locale variables remain set to "en" and "en_US". The system does not honour the settings applied through language-selector. Workaround: Clicking "Apply system-wide" on both the "Language" and the "Regional Formats" tabs on language-selector will change the language for the whole system. This will also apply the respective language settings on the user level. In my case this is no problem, as I am the only one using this system. But this is certainly not a solution for multi-user setups. System information: OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), 64 bit Language selector version: 0.79 Hardware: ThinkPad Edge 13, Intel i5 CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/993818/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
