Comment 111 for bug 553162

I am not sure if this is related, but I am experiencing problems with GDM overriding language selections I apply on a per-programme basis via the env variable.

Normally, when I select Chinese (China) at the login screen, I can still run programmes in English by prepending an env argument, e.g. "env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 firefox". That way I can run an English instance of Firefox in a Chinese language Ubuntu session. This was working fine up to Lucid. Maverick was the first Ubuntu release that caused problems. After installing Maverick, whatever language I specified at the login screen would stick, and I couldn't run programmes in an alternative language by prepending env. The issue disappeared somewhere along the way after an update, though. However, I just finished setting up a fresh install of Natty and the problem reappaeared.

Is this related to this bug or described somewhere else? Has somebody else experienced similar problems?