[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFC]logind: set locale in user sessions

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jan 4 08:23:27 PST 2013


Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) said: 
> Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said:
> > > I am tempted to just merge the patch. The discussion on xdg-devel can
> > > happen after we commited the code. In fact, moving that to PAM upstream
> > > can happen at a later point too, if it is desirable...
> > > 
> > > Also, given that this code is a NOP if ~/.config/locale.conf doesn't
> > > exist I think this is relatively straightforward to adopt...
> > > 
> > > Anybody else has opinions on this? Kay, Michal? Otherwise I'll just
> > > merge it... Tom.  can you bring standardization of ~/.config/locale.conf
> > > up on xdg-devel?
> > 
> > FWIW, GNOME stores this in the accounts service, outside of the user's
> > configuration heirarchy entirely, for access from the display manager and
> > other mechanisms.
> 
> Does gdm actually use that? Old versions used to have a language
> drop-down box. But I don't think new versions still have that?
> 
> It might indeed be a good idea to be able to determine the user locale
> without having to log-in/mount the home directory. Dunno. 
> 
> /me doesn't know anymore what to do...

CC'ing Bastien - I believe he's aware of which of GDM and the shell use this
setting and how.

Bill


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