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Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of greeter

From john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of greeter
Date 2018-01-07 20:00 +0100
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On 1/7/2018 6:52 PM, john doe wrote:
> On 1/4/2018 10:50 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
>> Hello John,
>>
>> I've configured a multilingual system based on Debian Jessie last month.
>>
>> The steps I've followed are:
>> 1) Install the language pack of your targeted languages like 
>> "task-english", don't miss to install the language pack for Firefox, 
>> Thunderbird and LibreOffice if needed.
>>
>> 2) Enable the locales of your users and move the default locale to 
>> "None" with :
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
>>
>> 3) Log in with one account
>>
>> 4) Edit the file "~/.dmrc", replace the locale with the locale you want.
>>
>> 5) Do the strep "4" for all the users
>>
>> You have to reboot your computer after applying the configuration to 
>> avoid cache. IMO, you should login into all your users to ensure that 
>> it works or test the procedure on a VM first.
>>
>> Could you let me know if it works correctly for you and what issues do 
>> you have to be sure that my Jessie procedure continues to work on 
>> Stretch ?
>>
> 
> Hi Alex and sorry for my late answer :)
> 
> Your procedure doesn't seem to work anymore on Debian Stretch.
> 

I got it working:

You also need to set the desired locale in 
'/var/lib/AccountsService/users/<USER-NAME>'.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/AccountsService/
https://afrantzis.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/changing-gdmlightdm-user-login-settings-programmatically/

-- 
John Doe

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Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of  greeter john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-01-03 10:00 +0100
  Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of  greeter Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud@hypra.fr> - 2018-01-04 10:50 +0100
    Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of  greeter john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-01-07 19:00 +0100
      Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of  greeter john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-01-07 20:00 +0100

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