Bug#638353: Cannot choose login language

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 27 novembre 2012 à 18:18 +0100, Jaap Winius a écrit : 
> Perhaps I missed something, but today I've been busy testing a wheezy  
> upgrade for the squeeze workstations at my site and noticed that the  
> gdm package was no longer available.

As mentioned in the squeeze release notes, gdm is only here for
convenience in squeeze. The default login manager is gdm3 (which happens
to not have the bug you mention in the squeeze version).

> It seems that we are expected to use gdm3 instead, with its new wheezy  
> artwork. But while it looks nice and I'd be happy to use it, there is  
> apparently still no option for users to select a language, which in my  
> case is critical.

The user’s language is now stored in AccountsService. It can be set
within gnome-control-center or using the DBus interface.

As already stated, this is an upstream design change in 3.4 that I
completely disagree with, and I’ll happily accept patches that add back
keyboard selection to the login screen.

Cheers,
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