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  1. Bug #407300
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 407300

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 407300] Re: /etc/gdm/Xsession breaks LANGUAGE

David Planella [2010-03-20 19:32 -0000]:
> • GDM can only write LANG (and the LC_xx categories)

Indeed, gdm does not currently have a concept of a "language list",
just a locale picker.

> • language-selector can write LANGUAGE

(but also LANG)

> • That effectively means that the language one selects in GDM is useless, since LANGUAGE has precedence

It's only useless if you fine-tuned your $LANG/$LANGUAGE in the
language-selector. It does work fine if you didn't (and most people
won't, I figure).

So, I agree it's confusing, but I don't see how to easily rectify it.
The best that comes to my mind is to disable the locale picker for
users which have a $LANGUAGE set?

Martin
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