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localechooser package

After installation KDM is not in chosen language but in English

Bug #45490 reported by Krzysztof Lichota on 2006-05-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #35573: No localizations available. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	localechooser (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Kubuntu live CD version 20060518.

After installing system using Ubiquity and choosing other language for installation (Polish), KDM upon system start appears in English. It should appear in language selected during installation.

I am not sure if this is Ubiquity problem (as locale is set properly and after login KDE appears in Polish) or KDM problem (not respecting default locale).

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Peter Parzer (peter-parzer) wrote on 2006-05-22:

I had the same problem with text mode install, so it seems not to be a problem of ubiquity alone. The bug is, that the installer does not set the key "Language" in the section [X-*-Greeter] in the file /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc to the choosen installation language.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-05-22:

Jonathan, I don't like the idea of the installer having to muck around with random files this way. Could kdm not fetch the language using pam_getenv, the same way gdm now does? That would be cleaner and would not require installer modifications.