Bug#784065: mate-session-manager: mate-session doesn't use locale/language settings from lightdm

[Ulrich Hobelmann]

Package: mate-session-manager
Version: 1.8.2-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
I'm running a plain Debian 8 installation, with MATE as the only desktop
installed, plus lightdm. System language is en_US.utf8, but I want to run a
user session as de_DE.utf8.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I generated the respective locales with dpkg-reconfigure locales. In lightdm I
then select the locale de_DE.utf8 and login.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
MATE still runs in en_US.utf8. Running 'locale' from a terminal shows
everything is en_US.UTF-8
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected MATE to accept lightdm's language settings.

mate-session-manager is latest from jessie/stable, but installing the -2
version from experimental shows the same behavior.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-session-manager depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.16-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.5.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                                  2.24.25-3
ii  libice6                                      2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0                            1.36.8-3
ii  libsm6                                       2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0                                  215-17
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxau6                                      1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrender1                                  1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  upower                                       0.99.1-3.2

Versions of packages mate-session-manager recommends:
ii  caja                  1.8.2-3
ii  marco                 1.8.2+dfsg1-6
ii  mate-panel            1.8.1+dfsg1-3
ii  mate-polkit           1.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  mate-settings-daemon  1.8.2-4

mate-session-manager suggests no packages.

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