gaskavahkku, geassemánu 11. b. 2003 20.28, LeVA don čállet: > > If I start kde from kdm, I lose my localisation settings in kde. I am > using hu_HU in locales. If I start kde from a console with startx, > everything is Ok. But when I am starting kde from kdm, the programs that > uses the translated .m4 or .po files, or just have some translated > files, does not seems to be in hungarian language (ex.: xchat, licq). > They are in english. In the kde control center, I can set up kdm to > display the kdm buttons and messages (login, shutdown etc...) in > hungarian. So that is ok. The problem is when I start kde from the kdm > login manager, it seems, that kdm "resets" the localisations, and sets > the lang to en, or en_US (or something like that). If I start a konsole > from kde, and run this: > > echo $LANG > I get "hu_HU". > > That is why I can not understand this problem. It seems, that I am using > hu_HU locales, but the kde programs, and other (for > example Xchat, or Licq) programs doesn't recognise the hu_HU locales, > and falls back to english. And this is all because I started kde from > the kdm login manager, and not from console with startx. > This is because, when starting from kdm, your ~/.profile (or where ever your environment variables are specified) aren't read. I have a .xsession file that goes something like this: #!/bin/sh export LANG=se_NO.UTF-8 exec /usr/bin/startkde This way the LANG variable is inherited by all programs in the session. Hope this helps. Regards, Børre Gaup, Kiruna, Sweden
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