after remote login language for menus not good

Thanks for your help to make Ubuntu better by reporting this issue. Unfortunately some time has passed since...

If you have upgraded to Natty, is the problem still there?

If you still have Lucid, I suggest that you install the gdm and language-selector packages for Lucid that are available at https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/lang-backports, and let us know if that made a difference.

I can confirm that the problem is still in Natty.

When I log in normally, the language is English as I want, but Finnish if I log in through freenx.

More info:

There are several environment variables which get set differently, for example XDG_ and locale variables. the freenx session seems not to acknowledge gnome settings. I got the language and time format working for me by hacking ~/.profile:

...
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
# export LANGUAGE="en:en_US:en"
export LC_TIME="fi_FI.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"

@Timo
Thanks for the info.

Even if I don't know anything about FreeNX, let me add a couple of things that I do know:

* In Natty the user language settings get reflected in the session environment either by logging in via GDM, or by sourcing ~/.profile.

* Another thing is that openssh in Ubuntu by default sends the LANG and LC_* variables on the client machine to the remote server. This default can be overridden by creating ~/.ssh/config

Assuming that it's ~/.profile on the remote machine you "hacked", and considering that you say it made a difference, it seems like ~/.profile does get sourced. So is there any problem left that needs to be resolved?

I'm sure I'll get along armed with .profile and friends. At the same time I'm sure that there will be a lot of confused users when they are hit with this feature. It would be very nice if FreeNX session acknowledged GNOME/GDM settings.

Regarding my situation, there is still minor things. For example Skype and DavMail doesn't blend nicely in the GNOME panel. They are enclosed in a white box.

Basically this is about how compatible FreeNX is with the setup of respective distribution, and the initiative to resolve this kind of issues lies reasonably on the FreeNX side. Awaiting possible suggestions from the FreeNX people, there is nothing to do with the language-selector package, so I close that part of the bug.

On 2011-09-28 08:20, Timo Ketola wrote:
> Regarding my situation, there is still minor things. For example Skype
> and DavMail doesn't blend nicely in the GNOME panel. They are enclosed
> in a white box.

Well, that issue is off-topic on this bug report, right? :) It would be great if you could file a separate bug about it.

Cheers!

On 30.09.2011 17:31, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Well, that issue is off-topic on this bug report, right? :)

Agreed.

> It would be
> great if you could file a separate bug about it.

I'll try...

Thanks for looking at this.