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

[James Madgwick]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:48:04 +0200
"Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)" <udo.grabowski at kit.edu> wrote:

> > 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).

That is not the language selector. It is the input method selector.
Mine is always be on "us" (despite never setting this language),
although changing to another option does work. This setting persists
after login, unless the user has set their own input method (in
keyboard settings).

Looking into this further, it seems language support in lightdm greeter
is mostly broken. There are various years old reports of these issues
and others, e.g.
[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853126] &
[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784065#10]. I
suspect the original problem I had relates to lightdm and not OI.

For now, config file based configuration will have to do.