Re: dpkg-reconfigure unable to change greeter locale
On 2025-12-21, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
>> (1) SSH will do nothing of the sort. SSH will just carry to you the
>> output of the commands running on the remote computer.
>
> Right. But it sets environment if its config allows. Here's, for
> example from /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which, AFAIK is Debian default:
>
> # Allow client to pass locale environment variables
> AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
>
>> (2) The timezone is not part of the locales, although it should.
>
> Makes sense to me, yes.
I once had a problem with the lightdm greeter, a US locale, and a French
keyboard where when the computer would go into power-saving mode, and
I'd wake it up again to type my password into the greeter, it would
default to a QWERTY.
Same for the console. Of course, this is of no help to anyone, but I
thought I'd mention it anyway.
It seems to me that locales used to present some difficulties over here
(I guess before UTF-8 came along). I still receive emails from time to
time where the accented characters are all screwy. I don't really know
how they achieve this.
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