This Bug on Launchpad seems to mention a patch fixing this (or similar?) issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1276072 Here is the patch: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/view/head:/debian/patches/04_language_handling.patch Vladimir ----- v_2e <v_2e at ukr.net> ----- v_2e <v_2e at ukr.net>