Re: When gdm will use default locale setting ?
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:11:41PM +0200, Miroslaw Sankowski wrote:
> W li?cie z wto, 06-05-2003, godz. 12:46, Sven Luther pisze:
> > > >
> > > > > GDM doesn't use default locale in Debian :(
> > > >
> > > > Sorry but no, this work.
> > > >
> > > > Christian
> > Yes, this is a known problem. You have to launch gdm from the shell or
> > restart it or whatever for it to inherit the system wide locale. I think
> > Sven Luther
>
> Hello,
>
> This issue can be solved/hacked by putting
>
> export LC_ALL=<your favourite locale, pl_PL for me>
Why not using LANG ?
> somwhere in the beginning of '/etc/init.d/gdm'.
But it will be overwritten at each upgrade of the gdm package. A better
solution would be for gdm to use /etc/preferences, would it not ? A
simple . /etc/preferences at the start of /etc/init.d/gdm should do
that, should it not, but then i am no expert on this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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