Thank you for the help. I didn't execute "im-config -n none" instead i did the following.
- enable the needed locales (= uncomment it) sudo vi /etc/locale.gen ... de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 ... sudo locale-gen - set the system language to en_US.UTF-8 sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - reboot the system - results steven@box:~$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 de_DE.utf8 en_US.utf8 POSIX steven@box:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- 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/1723318 Title: gnome-language-selector crashed with TypeError in getCurrentInputMethod(): 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: - fresh Lubuntu 17.10 install with daily iso from 10/12/2017 incl. latest updates - opening of Start => Preferences => Language Support results in the error ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: language-selector-gnome 0.180 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-15.16-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Fri Oct 13 06:11:35 2017 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171011) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.6 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=C SHELL=/bin/bash Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.3, python3-minimal, 3.6.3-0ubuntu2 PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector'] PythonDetails: /home/steven/Error: command ['which', 'python'] failed with exit code 1:, Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "/home/steven/Error: command ['which', 'python'] failed with exit code 1:": "/home/steven/Error: command ['which', 'python'] failed with exit code 1:", unpackaged SourcePackage: language-selector Title: gnome-language-selector crashed with TypeError in getCurrentInputMethod(): 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1723318/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp