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Re: GDM and locales



Le jeu 11/09/2003 à 14:08, Roland Mas a écrit :
> Jérôme Warnier, 2003-09-11 12:20:16 +0200 :
> 
> > [...]
> >
> >> I wholeheartedly agree here, a global locale configuration would be a
> >> great improvement. However, it looks quite difficult to achieve this for
> >> sarge, as it requires at least glibc and pam packaging changes. So it
> >> looks rather likely that sarge's locales will still be configured with
> >> LANG in /etc/environment (note that's why my change only reads the LANG
> >> variable, not the whole file). And it would really be a shame not to
> >> have a localized gdm when it is so easy to achieve.
> > I used to put $CUPS_SERVER in /etc/environment. The recent changes in
> > GDM broke that and I had to face it by setting $CUPS_SERVER into
> > /etc/profile.
> >
> > Just to let you know there are other usages of /etc/environment...
> 
> Then maybe the best way would be to officially decree that
> /etc/environment is not owned by PAM only any more, but can be used
> for all system settings, even those that have to take effect before
> login.
> 
>   Of course, then I don't see why gdm should limit itself to parsing
> only the value for $LANG :-)
Honestly, I don't care.
Try just to think about such things and the best place to put them, I'll
adapt to what you decide.
Try to not change that every week, that's all ;-)

> Roland.
> -- 
> Roland Mas
> 
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Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>

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