Re: Changing locale for X session

[Shachar Or <dawnlight@lavabit.com>]

Hi!

Using etch. Using kdm.

I've found that I can put stuff in ~/.xsession. I put 'export 
LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8' there. That made the xserver start and quit, putting me 
back in kdm.

I assume that this is because X didn't start any process and it decides to die 
thus.

I assume that this is because of kdm's behaviour. kdm, when it finds 
the .xsession in the user's home, launches it and doesn't launch the script 
that it would normally launch, the one that starts the KDE session.

I didn't want to mess around too much so I worked at this at another angle; I 
set the system default to he_IL.UTF-8, which is what I want for my users, and 
then I did
 echo 'export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' >> /root/.profile
so that root won't have Hebrew in it's shell. This is because Hebrew is RTL 
and it is confusing when combined with LTR; not to mention that the console 
doesn't even print RTL correctly, but in reverse! (where do I file a bug for 
this?)

Good week!
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Shachar Or | שחר אור
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