# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop UI language not persisting across restart or update relaunch

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Members concern the Desktop app's language setting reverting to English on restart despite a locale saved in config.yaml (e.g., pt-BR). Several pull requests propose reading the locale from config on startup and retrying that read after an update relaunch; the outcome of these changes is not stated in the titles.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #106476. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #106476 (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-106476`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #26665: Bug: Desktop language setting resets to English on restart despite config.yaml having pt-BR saved

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#106476: fix(desktop): UI language survives the update relaunch — startup locale read retries (#105465, #26665, salvage #76158 + #105470)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/i18n/context.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/context.tsx`, `contributors/emails/mengyuyuan@users.noreply.github.com`
- **#26680: fix(web/i18n): persist Desktop language from config.yaml on startup (#26665)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `140eaf9e036`, `#26665`, `#106476`
- **#105470: fix(desktop): retry startup locale config read after update relaunch**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c2524736d13`, `#106476`, `#76158`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #106476 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-09`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`