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Can't change the login screen language & keyboard layout

Asked by AlphaDelta

I'm trying to apply my language setting (french) to the login screen, with no result yet. My current situation is :
- the login screen / greeter is displayed in English and the keyboard layout is set to QWERTY (typing the password is tricky)
- once logged into my account, the system is displayed in french and the keyboard layout is AZERTY.

What I want:
- the login screen displayed in french and using the AZERTY layout

What I did so far:
- opened the locale plug in switchboard,
- clicked the 'set the language to login screen too' button at the bottom
- enter my root password
- logged off
- nothing changed
- I also tried to restart the computer
- I noticed that the locale plug doesn't display any language when I open it, I have to click 'Install new language', select 'french' and enter my root password to refresh it and make it display the two installed languages (english and french) and the selected one (french).

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AlphaDelta (alpha-delta) said : 		#1

I just uninstalled the english language and restarted, but the login screen is still displayed in english and using the QWERTY layout.

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kay van der Zander (kay20) said : 		#2

Hi AlphaDelta,

This is reported as bug. Because of this i mark this question as solved
View the progress of the bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/switchboard/+bug/1444118

have a nice day :)

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Coeur Noir (coeur-noir) said : 		#3

Thanks to Ákos Keresztes I get back login screen in french by completing the file :

/etc/default/locale

LANGUAGE and LC_ALL were missing.