On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:52:09PM -0700, William Mattison wrote: > The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese. Not > what was wanted! So I thought I could just delete the account and > re-create it. I used the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user > account. I did check that the home directory for that account was > gone. Then I re-created the account with Users and Groups. When the > user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified Chinese! I > re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and > re-creating the account. It was still simplified Chinese. All other > user accounts are English. Where is the language preference for that > one user account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and > how do I clear it? No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to > read/understand the simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, > messages, application icon labels, etc. Or how can I as root reset > that account's preferences back to default without becoming that user? I think you've already ruled out the user's ~/.i18n file, which is sourced by /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and lang.csh at login-time, so the next thing I'd check is the preferences saved by the accounts service. Check for a configuration file named after the user in /var/lib/AccountsService/users. HTH, Nalin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
