[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#679386: lightdm: Language selection is ignored in session, $LANG is system default

[ian_bruce at fastmail.net (Ian Bruce)]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.2.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #679386

I confirm this bug report in every detail; what the submitter describes
happens exactly the same for me. It used to work, prior to the recent
package upgrade.

I'm using the XFCE-4 desktop environment; I don't know if that matters.

The ~/.dmrc file is written according to the language selected at login,
but the environment variables are not set:


    $ cat ~/.dmrc

    [Desktop]
    Session=xfce
    Language=ja_JP.utf8
    $ 
    $ 
    $ locale
    LANG=
    LANGUAGE=
    LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
    LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
    LC_TIME="POSIX"
    LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
    LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
    LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
    LC_PAPER="POSIX"
    LC_NAME="POSIX"
    LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
    LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
    LC_ALL=


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                3.112+nmu2
ii  consolekit             0.4.5-1
ii  dbus                   1.6.0-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.36.1
ii  libc6                  2.13-33
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.32.3-1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1
ii  libxcb1                1.8.1-1
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.1.1-1
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter    1.1.6-2

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+1

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii  accountsservice  0.6.21-6

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf changed:
[LightDM]
[SeatDefaults]
xserver-allow-tcp=true
greeter-session=lightdm-greeter
greeter-hide-users=true
session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]


-- debconf information:
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm