Greeter with language selector for wheezy
Hi folks,
Does anyone know of a greeter with a language selector for wheezy?
My site uses Debian squeeze workstations with Xfce that need support for
both English and Dutch. Currently we use gdm, a display manager with few
dependencies that has a greeter with a working language selector.
Soon, however, we'll be upgrading to Debian wheezy, in which gdm has been
dropped in favor of gdm3, which has very many Gnome dependencies. Worse,
it has no language selector. Nor does kdm (which also has many
dependencies), xdm, wdm, or slim. 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. Apparently lxdm has a language
selector, but there's still no Debian package for it.
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,
which is why I need a greeter with a language selector.
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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