# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop language setting lost across restarts multi-profile

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where the selected display language is not persisted correctly across restarts in multi-profile desktop setups, because the language is read from the wrong profile. The fixes scope locale reads and reloads to the active window's profile rather than the default.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #120699. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #120699 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-120699`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.40`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #113980: \[Desktop\] Language pick never survives restart in multi-profile setups: chrome reads the default profile's \`display.language\`, picker writes the window's profile

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#120699: fix(desktop): reload language for the active profile and connection**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/i18n/context.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/profile-locale.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/profile-provider.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/main.tsx`
- **#113989: fix(desktop): reload locale for active profile**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#113996`, `#113996`
- **#113996: fix(desktop): re-read persisted language when the active profile settles**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`
- **#113997: fix(desktop): scope the i18n locale read to the window's profile**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #120699 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-23`.