Comment 27 for bug 1276072

On 2014-02-08 18:52, A. Scheuer wrote:
> Well, I do prefer to hide users and show manual login (this is my
> work laptop, am I paranoiac?).

Paranoiac or not, at least you make it hard for yourself. ;-)

> Whatsoever, it does not change a lot: before entering login (or
> selecting it, it should be the same),

Should? Did you try the selecting way?

> the language selected is English (it should be the system one, i.e.
> French, don't you think?).

It should be the user language, if set, otherwise the system one. And that's what it probably would have been if you had applied the default feature to *select* the user you want to log in as. At least that's how it works for me and other *ubuntu + lightdm-gtk-greeter users.

Currently it's accountsservice that provides the language. However, for accountsservice to be able to do so, you must pass a username to it, and that's what you do when *selecting* a user on the login screen.

You know what? Considering that you prefer to hide the user list from the login screen, it might work better for you if you disable the language selector feature in lightdm-gtk-greeter. You do so by setting

show-language-selector=false

in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf