<div>A "very valid" usage for this feature is for public computers in libraries.</div><div>We don't know in advance what the language the users will need.</div><div>This is especially useful in countries where many languages are in use simultaneously, such as Swiss, India, Singapore, or others.</div>
<div>Another possible usage is for a central server providing terminal services in network environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Please add it back or at least make it possible for other greeters to do it.</div><div>If Ubuntu doesn't need it, just remove this feature from your default greeter.</div>
<div>However, we'd like to add this feature to our own greeter. Please, at least make this optional.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Guido Berhoerster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gber@opensuse.org">gber@opensuse.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">* PCMan <<a href="mailto:pcman.tw@gmail.com">pcman.tw@gmail.com</a>> [2011-08-18 14:52]:<br>
<div class="im">> I just migrated my own GtkBuilder-based greeter to LightDM 0.9.x. However, I<br>
> found that language selection is no longer available. We relied on this<br>
> feature in the previous version. The feature is also supported by gdm and<br>
> lxdm. With LightDM 0.9 supporting this is not possible. I read the source<br>
> code and found that "Language" value in .dmrc is not used. So there is no<br>
> way to configure language for the selected session.<br>
> In NEWS file of lightdm, I noted that this is deliberately removed and users<br>
> should set locale in .profile. However, .profile is not always loaded<br>
> depending on the distro/environment used. Moreover, this requires that users<br>
> edit config files manually. Is it possible to restore this feature in<br>
> LightDM or at least give us other ways to do it?<br>
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</div>I second that, please see my comment on the corresponsing feature<br>
request for some additional arguments and use cases:<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/803858/comments/6" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/803858/comments/6</a><br>
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