LightDM language isn't set by Language plug

[Cassidy James Blaede]

I'm trying to apply my language setting (french) to the login screen, with no result yet. My current situation is :
- the login screen / greeter is displayed in English and the keyboard layout is set to QWERTY (typing the password is tricky)
- once logged into my account, the system is displayed in french and the keyboard layout is AZERTY.

What I want:
- the login screen displayed in french and using the AZERTY layout

What I did so far:
- opened the locale plug in switchboard,
- clicked the 'set the language to login screen too' button at the bottom
- enter my root password
- logged off
- nothing changed
- I also tried to restart the computer
- I noticed that the locale plug doesn't display any language when I open it, I have to click 'Install new language', select 'french' and enter my root password to refresh it and make it display the two installed languages (english and french) and the selected one (french).

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Same problem here :

- system set in french
- login screen in english

For azerty keyboard you can set it through switchboard / clavier / disposition
Et prendre par exemple le clavier Français (variante) ;-)

I've also noticed other localisations problems : synaptic once installed desperatly remains english.

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Related question here :

https://answers.launchpad.net/pantheon-greeter/+question/265018

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Maybe related bugS here :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-greeter/+bug/1048873

https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-greeter/+bug/1390682

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Thanks to Ákos Keresztes I get back login screen in french by completing the file :

/etc/default/locale

LANGUAGE and LC_ALL were missing.

[AlphaDelta (alpha-delta)]

To make the keyboard work, I also had to create the folder 'xorg.conf.d' and this file:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

with this content:

#
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Going to mark as invalid for Greeter since I can confirm that Marvin's locale plug branch sets it for me

[Lasne Olivier (lasneolivier)]

I am running an up to date freya but still has that bug. Here is a screencast.
The login screen stay in english and the keyboard in qwerty.

[Lasne Olivier (lasneolivier)]

I have the folowing log in terminal :

olivier@olivier-MacBookAir:~$ switchboard

** (switchboard:13199): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-toB4QevLIM: Connexion refusée
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 18:16:02.111121] Application.vala:155: Paramètres système version: 2.0
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 18:16:02.111188] Application.vala:157: Kernel version: 3.19.0-31-generic
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 18:16:02.129523] Tweaks.vala:308: Activating Tweak plug
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 18:16:02.174951] Tweaks.vala:131: HIDE
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 18:16:02.178900] PlankSettings.vala:204: Le fichier de clés contient la clé « Monitor » dans le groupe « PlankDockPreferences » qui a une valeur impossible à interpréter.
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 18:16:05.498021] LocaleManager.vala:134: Could not connect to locale1 dbus -> when I select langage & regian
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 18:16:18.819426] UbuntuInstaller.vala:198: ID /org/debian/apt/transaction/93f2c23e207448e9b655576eadcbc56b -> success
Failed to issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 -> when I click on set System Langage
Failed to issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

[psnizek (psnizek-i)]

Just did a fresh install yesterday 2015-11-26 and am experiencing the same issue related to the cs_CZ locale.
The login screen is in English (wrong), while the session is in cs_CZ (correct).

The system language button (apply locale settings to all accounts and the login screen) didn't help.

In fact the behavior of the language and region settings window is somewhat dysfunctional and cumbersome to use.

[psnizek (psnizek-i)]

Login screen locale fixed by adding a line to /etc/default/locale:
LC_ALL=cs_CZ.utf-8

Wrong keyboard at login screen fixed by running following command in terminal:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

[Marvin Beckers (embik)]

> In fact the behavior of the language and region settings window is somewhat dysfunctional and cumbersome to use.

Please create a new bug report and explain your problems with the plug's UX, otherwise we can't really fix that.