Selecting language at logon

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kpengboy
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Joined: 09/08/2013

Hi,
I have the English and Chinese languages installed on my system, and I'd like to be able to choose which one to use from the login screen. Currently, if I want to switch the language I'm using, I have to open up Language Support from the System Settings, drag Chinese to the top or the bottom, and relogin, which is rather cumbersome. I am currently using GDM (or so I think). Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers,
kpengboy

lembas
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Joined: 05/13/2010

If my search engine-fu is strong, seems it can't be done. A "design decision".

Perhaps the easiest way would be to try another dm, e.g. lightdm or kdm. Maybe those would be more sane.

kpengboy
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Joined: 09/08/2013

Thanks. I ultimately did a horrible hack by creating a new X session that uses env to set all the locale-related environment vars before launching gnome-session. It works for now.

muhammed
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Joined: 04/13/2013

When you type in Chinese, do you enter pinyin, which turns into Chinese characters?

I looked up lightdm and kdm on Wikipedia. Are desktop managers the same as desktop environments? Does anyone know of a desktop manager/environment that makes language-switching easy?