Display Managers

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Display Managers

21 January 2023, 10:58:15

As I have plaid with Artix -dinit for a month, I noticed that if you want to use another language than english in the display manager (I tested LightDM and SDDM), you have to put the wished locale in /etc/environment. It seems that neither SDDM nor LightDM read /etc/locale.conf to choose the displayed locale.
Is it typical for dinit or does the same problem occur under the other init-systems.
In other (systemd) distributions such as fedora, archlinux or opensuse, you just have to configure the /etc/locale.conf file.

Re: Display Managers

Reply #1 – 21 January 2023, 18:12:05

A possible solution for changing sddm's language on a non-systemd system:
SDDM : Wrong language at login

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04-28-2021, 05:45 AM #3
Desiderius

Looking at "/etc/default/sddm", I have seen that it is only a call to "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh".
This script sets the language for all applications using it.
So I put:
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 export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
in this file
and reboot ( with the option to have SDDM )
When SDDM appears it is now entirely in French !