guest session's language should be configurable

Bug #463622 reported by benste
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GDM2Setup
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gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

Short scenario:

As I reporting bugs from time to time I have choosen to use English as my default language.

Now if my sister wants to use my PC, or someone at school I would like to start a german guest-session

iirc language settings are done in gdm which doesn't appear for guest session, so i would suggest that either there would be a config in the "start" user's config or during creation of the user.

Last one would be annoying to those who like to use the same language.

IDEA: wouldn't it be possible to change the guestsessions auto login into a 2 sec auto login ? - which would allow to change language in GDM

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 29 20:02:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: indicator-applet 0.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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benste (benste) wrote :
Ted Gould (ted)
affects: indicator-applet (Ubuntu) → gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
summary: - wishlist | guest session's language should be configurable
+ guest session's language should be configurable
Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Please check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1566078
Among other things that tutorial, including the attached tarball file, deals with selecting language for a guest session.

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benste (benste) wrote :

@ Martin - looks interesting, may you explain what Gunnar could do to implement this into gnome ?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

You could set your local language as a system default in the language selector, and then set English only for your user. I don't see where else one could configure such things?

Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

The tutorial I mentioned shows how the guest session language can be set irrespective of the system default. The key lines of code (in prefs.sh) are:

    echo "Language=$long.utf8" >> /var/cache/gdm/$USER/dmrc
    echo "export LANGUAGE=$short" >> $HOME/.profile

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