Okej.... But the combination of environment variables you stated still confuses me. User accounts does not set session env. vars, and if nothing is stored in accountsservice - which is correct since ~/.pam_environment isn't there - accountsservice should respond with de or de_DE in your case when queried for Language (assuming that you edited /etc/default/locale manually).
Just curious, since I was involved in the the changed lightdm behavior above, and you made me fear that we overlooked something. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242359 Title: Always puts LANGUAGE=en into seesion environment despite German locale Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: A few weeks ago, my session started to be in English. I can't pinpoint when that started, with some lightdm upgrade or a reinstallation of my laptop, but my session in lightdm now always has LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=en LANGUAGE=en in its environment, and there seems to be no way to change it. I have no idea where this is coming from, my configuration files: $ cat /etc/default/locale LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" $ cat /etc/environment PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games" $ cat ~/.pam_environment cat: /home/martin/.pam_environment: No such file or directory $ cat .dmrc [Desktop] Session=ubuntu $ sudo cat /var/cache/lightdm/dmrc/martin.dmrc [Desktop] Session=ubuntu I don't know of another file which should be relevant for lightdm and contain the LANGUAGE=en, so I assume lightdm just somehow "invents" this. I even tried to change lightdm's keyboard selector from en (I use US keyboard layout) to de. This properly changed the keyboard layout, but doesn't drop/change LANGUAGE. I also confirmed this with another local user, the very same problem happens for that. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: lightdm 1.8.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Oct 20 16:26:58 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-14 (6 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131013) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1242359/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
