Bug 391743

Summary:	Login screen is in german (german month-name etc) after startup
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Christian Bonami <cbonami>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.12.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Christian Bonami 2018-03-12 06:57:09 UTC

My regional settings (Formats) are all on 'be_EN' (Belgium, English). 
My preferred language is 'American English'.
Nevertheless, when I start my machine I end up with login/lock-screen in German. Once logged on, going back to lock-screen, all is in English, as expected.

I remember I also had this problem when changing to other regional formats.

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-03-13 13:29:39 UTC

SDDM, can't use your user's preferences as we don't know what user we are yet.

It will follow whatever locale you have set up system wide in your installer or any LC_ envrionment variables you have systemwide.

Definitely not a plasmashell bug. At most it could be a wishlist against system settings to alter these globally, but I'm not sure that's within scope of a DE.