Language Support interface "requires a reboot"

Bug #200197 reported by John Leach
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
language-selector (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: language-selector

When changing the input method option (enable support to enter complex characters), clicking apply says:

"Reboot required. To complete the changes a reboot is required so that the new functionality is activated."

Is that really the case? The only other time I need to reboot my machine is after a kernel upgrade, and then I get an icon reminding me in the notification area.

Revision history for this message
万昊 (wanhao) wrote :

i also see "reboot required" box. i click ok, and input method option (enable support to enter complex characters) remain unselected. and reboot doesn't help

Revision history for this message
万昊 (wanhao) wrote :

i choose "english (united states) as default language

Revision history for this message
Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

@万昊: Can you please report which version you tested? Also, please test again with the Beta iso image if you haven't done so. And please reboot after changing the setting. If the problem still exist (which it shouldn't), please open a separate bug report for it.

The reboot is required, because the support for handling complex characters is implemented in the X session through environment variables. Therefor at least a restart of the X session is required to activate the change. That means, not only logout and re-login, but gdm needs to be restarted. In some cases however, it may be possible that the change will still not take effect, for example when the user in addition to enabling/disabling complex character support also changed the default login language. So, a reboot is the safe bet.

Therefor I'd like to close this bug as 'invalid'.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.3.7

---------------
language-selector (0.3.7) intrepid; urgency=low

  * use update-notifier to display "restart session required" message
  * session restart is enough to apply "complex character support" (LP: #200197)
  * add a "details" section to gnome-language-selector to let users install
    only a subset of available laguage-support packages for a given language.
    (LP: #184028)
  * rewording in gnome-language-selector UI (LP: #236584)

 -- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:46:27 +0800

Changed in language-selector:
status: New → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.