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[Simon Poirier <2120502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

While at it, I'd like to point out that the language-selector might not
be the most ergonomic as you need to "drag" and sort the languages in
order of preference. You don't really switch to one language by clicking
one, in case that's your issue.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Operating system ignores changes to non-admin users' language settings

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When I'm logged into a non-admin user account, no matter how often I
  use language-selector to switch to a different language, the menus all
  stay in the old language. Or at least that was my experience with
  trying to switch from English to German. Rebooting doesn't help, and
  neither does trying to use sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales to change the
  system language to "none". This version of Ubuntu Mate apparently
  insists that there has to be a system language and that every user has
  to use that system language. Very unhelpful in multilingual
  environments.

  Note that I experienced the bug before I changed the system language
  to German.

  Version 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) 64-bit
  Kernel Linux 6.14.0-27-generic x86_64
  MATE 1.26.2

  language-selector-gnome 0.227

  (Might be a bug in an entirely different part of the system rather
  than that package, though.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.227
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-27.27-generic 6.14.6
  Uname: Linux 6.14.0-27-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Tue Aug 12 23:33:18 2025
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-08-12 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" - Release amd64 (20250415.2)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.13
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.13, Python 3.13.3, python3-minimal, 3.13.3-1
  PythonDetails: N/A
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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