Comment 27 for bug 487997

yes, it doesn't work either for kile or lyx

I also did:
strace -Ff -tt lyx 2>&1|tee > lyx_strace.log as root
strace -Ff -tt lyx 2>&1|tee > lyx_strace.log as wordprocess (my user)

At this point I clicked to make the window active, pressed ctrl-n to open a new file, switched to greek and pressed ;a which for root gave ά and for wordprocess gave ´α and after that quit the program.

diff lyx_strace.log /home/wordprocess/lyx_strace.log|grep /usr/share/X11/locale/

and it returned:

diff lyx_strace.log /home/wordprocess/lyx_strace.log|grep /usr/share/X11/locale/
< 22:52:01.986230 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 10
< 22:52:01.988477 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 10
< 22:52:01.989695 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = 10
< 22:52:01.990643 access("/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE", R_OK) = 0
< 22:52:01.990709 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE", O_RDONLY) = 10
> 22:52:48.507434 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 10
> 22:52:48.509398 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 10
> 22:52:48.510633 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = 10
> 22:52:48.511463 access("/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE", R_OK) = 0
> 22:52:48.511527 open("/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE", O_RDONLY) = 10

which I guess means that both users do the same things as far as X11 are concerned.