STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Installing KDE-Linux with lang = de 2. After finishing reboot 3. Login Screen remains english OBSERVED RESULT Login screen english EXPECTED RESULT The login screen should be displayed in the same language as the system SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Betriebssystem: KDE Linux 2026-03-02 KDE-Plasma-Version: 6.6.80 KDE-Frameworks-Version: 6.24.0 Qt-Version: 6.10.2 Kernel-Version: 6.18.13-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Grafik-Plattform: Wayland Prozessoren: 2 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155U Arbeitsspeicher: 5,7 GiB nutzbar Grafikprozessor: llvmpipe Hersteller: innotek GmbH Produktname: VirtualBox Systemversion: 1.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
What is the output of `cat /etc/locale.conf`?
[marcel@kde-linux:~] $ cat /etc/locale.conf LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 [marcel@kde-linux:~] $
Thanks, I can reproduce the issue.
I can reproduce the issue as well (on bare metal, not in a VM), I have the same locale set as Marcel. Operating System: KDE Linux 2026-05-15 KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.27.0 Qt Version: 6.11.0 Kernel Version: 7.0.5-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × AMD E2-7110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics Memory: 4 GiB of RAM (3.2 GiB usable) Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 80TJ System Version: Lenovo ideapad 110-15ACL
It's not even in just in English; the time is using the C locale, which is wrong for en_US users too.
I manually modified this file, and it works now ``` nano /var/lib/plasmalogin/.config/plasma-localerc ``` ``` [Formats] LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 [Translations] LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh ```
Created attachment 194150 [details] option to sync In system settings -> login screen, there is an option, to sync your settings to the login screen, but at least for me, this fails in doing so for the keyboard layout as well. (at the very least, my cursor theme is not synced either)
I can confirm that syncing the settings does not sync ~/.config/plasma-localerc to /var/lib/plasmalogin/.config/plasma-localerc. That's an issue we can fix on the plasmalogin side; let's track it here. We should also figure out why the locale isn't set properly after initial setup on KDE Linux. For that, let's follow up in https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/740.
In progress with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/merge_requests/191.
Git commit 3379fb65097a210f17fc2c984d7c6e95b1d6c013 by Nate Graham. Committed on 04/08/2026 at 23:46. Pushed by olib into branch 'master'. Also sync plasma-localerc Without this, the user has no GUI to override the language shown on the login screen if it's set incorrectly in /etc/locale.conf or /var/lib/plasmalogin/.config/plasma-localerc. FIXED-IN: 6.8.0 M +2 -0 src/frontend/kcm/auth/plasmaloginauthhelper.cpp M +2 -0 src/frontend/kcm/kcm.cpp M +1 -1 src/frontend/kcm/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/commit/3379fb65097a210f17fc2c984d7c6e95b1d6c013
Git commit e132e62d5300646eff380b60de468547a332f08f by Nate Graham. Committed on 05/08/2026 at 16:20. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.7'. Also sync plasma-localerc Without this, the user has no GUI to override the language shown on the login screen if it's set incorrectly in /etc/locale.conf or /var/lib/plasmalogin/.config/plasma-localerc. FIXED-IN: 6.8.0 (cherry picked from commit 3379fb65097a210f17fc2c984d7c6e95b1d6c013) M +2 -0 src/frontend/kcm/auth/plasmaloginauthhelper.cpp M +2 -0 src/frontend/kcm/kcm.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/commit/e132e62d5300646eff380b60de468547a332f08f