[LightDM] manual-login and user preferred locale

[tjoen]

On 01-01-15 20:31, Jerzy Borkowski wrote:
> When I select username from user list (in gtk-greeter),
> this also updates preselected session/locale in session/locale_menu.
> This is very useful, when user's preferred locale/session
> stored in ~/.dmrc or accountservice is not the same
> as system default.
>
> However, in manual-login mode, locale in locale_menu
> is preset to system default (likely en_US.utf8).
> This effectively ignores user's ~/.dmrcand/or accountsservice
> settings. A user with ~/.dmrc :
>
> [Desktop]
> Language=fr_FR.utf8
>
> has to select fr_FR locale each time he logs in
> in manual-login mode.  Otherwise, the language
> is reset to system default.
>
> I think the locale_menu should contain additional
> item: "Last used", and it should be preselected.
>
I think it should be configured in /usr/share/xsessions/*
and user's .xinitrc .xsesion .config/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
can override the defaults of the session