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

[Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)]

On 26-08-2025 13:21, James Madgwick wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:26:40 -0500 (CDT)
> Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss
> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
>> Is it getting persisted anywhere under
>>
>>   	/var/lib/lightdm-data
> 
> No. There's a folder for my user but it is empty.
> 
>> Does either
>>
>>   	gsettings list-recursively | egrep -i locale
>>
>> or
>>
>>   	dconf dump / | egrep -i locale
>>
>> turn up anything that looks promising for setting the locale?
> 
> After further searching, I found
> `/var/cache/lightdm/dmrc/{myuser}.dmrc`. This contained the persisted
> LANG configuration value. Removing this file and rebooting (restarting
> lightdm) caused my local user's LANG to revert to the system default.
> 
>>> In addition, there ought to be a GUI/simple way for users to set
>>> this.
>>
>> Agreed.
> 
> It should be possible to add a language selection option to the
> greeter. 
 >....
... there is: After entering your user name in the login window,
but not yet entering the password, there appears language selector
in the upper right screen edge (or is even visible the whole time).
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