[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#694588: Language selection not working

[Jaap Winius]

Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter
Version: 1.1.6-2

While testing wheezy and looking for a gdm replacement, someone  
suggested that I give (lightdm and) lightdm-gtk-greeter a try. By  
default it does not display a language selector, but this can be  
enabled in its configuration file,  
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf, as follows:

   [greeter]
   background=/usr/share/images/desktop-base/login-background.svg
   show-language-selector=true
   theme-name=Adwaita
   #font-name=
   xft-antialias=true
   #xft-dpi=
   xft-hintstyle=hintfull
   xft-rgba=rgb

As shown above, the option 'show-language-selector' has been  
uncommented and set to 'true'. After lightdm is restarted, the  
language selector does indeed appear, but unfortunately it has no  
effect. I found a reference to this bug here:

http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/bug-679386-lightdm-language-selection-ignored-session-lang-system-default-help-207998491.html

Cheers,

Jaap