Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > Tom H wrote:
>> >> With bash, you'd edit "/etc/profile" or "~/.profile"; with zsh, no idea.
>> >
>> > That won't work for logins from an xdm such as gdm, kdm or lightdm.
>>
>> It works for gdm, at least up to v2.30.
>
> I just tested it on Squeeze with gdm 2.20.11-4 and it does NOT source
> my .profile here. I did this from a clean install with a clean test
> user account.
>
> I just tested it on Wheezy with lightdm 1.0.6-1 and it does NOT source
> my .profile here. I did this from a clean install with a clean test
> user account.
>
> I tested it on Wheezy with gdm3 3.0.4-4 and it DID source my .profile
> here. So something is different between Squeeze and Wheezy and
> between gdm3 and gdm. Probably gdm3 specific behavior. I didn't have
> time to chase down the difference.
Strange. It used to work for me with gdm v<3 (never tried it with
v=3.x), someone else said in this thread that it worked with gdm v2,
and the Ubuntu bug for lightdm referred to in this thread said "it
used to work for gdm and doesn't work for lightdm so it's a
regression".
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