Strange. Firefox should be started in English if you set LC_MESSAGES as I suggested. Typo, maybe? ;-)
gedit is another thing. Unlike Firefox gedit recognizes the LANGUAGE env. variable, which overrides both LANG and LC_MESSAGES, so to make gedit be started in English you would need: env LANGUAGE=en gedit Yes, if there is a need to track it down, please submit a separate bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553162 Title: Set $LANGUAGE if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
