[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to configure user's locale - is this broken?

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to configure user's locale - is...:

> Adding the overriding LC_ALL to `/etc/default/init` triggered a locale
> change for my local user. The first time I set it the desktop session
> language changed persistently, such that after removing LC_ALL it
> remained on this language and reverted back to it after setting LC_ALL
> to a different language and then unsetting it.

Interesting.

Is it getting persisted anywhere under

 	/var/lib/lightdm-data

?

> It should be possible to configure the locale on a per user basis.

Agreed.

>MATE
> can use a GUI tool called "gnome-language-selector" for this, but it
> doesn't seem to be packaged on OI. It also seems it should be
> configurable using `.config/locale.conf`, which didn't work for me.
>
> I switched between various languages to test this and from what I can
> tell, profile language is persisted somewhere in MATE/lightdm config,
> but not in a local file - if I connect via ssh I get the default LANG,
> not what is used for the desktop session.

That doesn't surprise me, and I think is "correct", but there should
be one way to set it, per-user, that both would reference and obey.

> The problem is that I cannot find a way to change the desktop session
> language (other than overriding using LC_ALL at the whole system
> level). Using `.config/locale.conf` should work but doesn't. This
> desktop specific LANG is being set somewhere outside of the user's
> home.

Does either

 	gsettings list-recursively | egrep -i locale

or

 	dconf dump / | egrep -i locale

turn up anything that looks promising for setting the locale?

> In addition, there ought to be a GUI/simple way for users to set this.

Agreed.

Tim
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