[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#735251: my two cents

[Josip Rodin]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 02:09:29PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I hit this bug too: I don't have anything (uncommented) in
> /etc/default/locale, but after installing lightdm I ended up with a ~/.dmrc
> that says:
> 
> [Desktop]
> Language=de_DE.utf8
> Session=lightdm-xsession
> 
> Oddly enough, I didn't actually notice this because lightdm was in English.
> 
> Once I logged in, I clicked on XFCE's menus and found them to be in German,
> which I never actually wanted.
> 
> The cause seems to be:
> 
> % grep '^[^#]' /etc/locale.gen
> de_DE ISO-8859-1                          
> de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
> de_DE at euro ISO-8859-15
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> fr_FR ISO-8859-1
> fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
> hr_HR ISO-8859-2
> hr_HR.UTF-8 UTF-8
> nb_NO ISO-8859-1
> nb_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8
> 
> I don't think the order of this file - which seems to be alphabetically
> sorted by default - should override the standard implicit default of POSIX,
> that is, English.
> 
> In fact if the program itself is running with POSIX, and there's no other
> indicator, it should make the user default POSIX as well.
> 
> This kind of guesswork doesn't seem to be a safe choice at all.

Oh, but it gets worse. I edited the file to replace de_DE with en_US, and
retried login, but it was still in German. So I edited the file to put in
hr_HR.UTF-8, and did a sudo service lighdm restart for good measure, and now
after login XFCE menus are in Croatian. Well, at least some progress.

Yet I then opened the file again and now I see:

% cat .dmrc
[Desktop]
Language=de_DE.utf8
Session=lightdm-xsession

So, um, what the hell? What program is rewriting the config file in my
user home directory?

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