Bug 27132

Summary:	session locales through display managers are not working
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joseph Wang <joequant>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ouaurelien
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	lightdm-1.26.0-11.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
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Description Joseph Wang 2020-08-19 05:04:10 CEST

Description of problem:

Setting the display manager to an alternative locale is not changing the locale.
The problem seems to be that display manager is using accountservices, but
the locale is being set with environment variables, which are ignoring the entries in accountservices


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. set systemconfig to one locale
2. use display manager to log into another locale
3. new locale does not appear

Comment 1 Joseph Wang 2020-08-19 06:04:33 CEST

may be related to this bug

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42162?string=locale.sh&project=1&search_in_comments=1&search_in_details=1&status%5B0%5D=

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-19 16:51:47 CEST

Hi,
Thanks reporting,

What display manager are you running?

Also, on Plasma, accounts-daemon.service - Accounts Service - is not enabled by default.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Joseph Wang 2020-08-20 11:24:19 CEST

break in both lxdm and lightdm running on cinnamon session.  

The problem seems to be that lang.sh will override the session language with the language in locale.conf and /etc/sysconfig/i18n

Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-20 22:39:12 CEST

Seems lightdm the problem?
urpmq -i lightdm
lightdm-1.26.0-11.mga8.src.rpm

Is it upstream supported to change locale at graphical login?
Do you expect besides lightdm displays his face in English for example and you select whatever locale (French) to have right after login French UI language (for example) on your DE?

Assigning to registered Maintainer.

Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa
Source RPM: accountsservice-0.6.55-2.mga8.src.rpm => lightdm-1.26.0-11.mga8.src.rpm