Re: Environment setting before gdm start
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:04:28PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wants to get german menues in gdm for my users, which implies
> setting the LC_ALL environment variable to de_DE. I did this in the
> /etc/profile, but this only helps after gdm is restarted.
>
> I understand that gdm starts before the /etc/profile settings are
> worked out. How to set some variables early enough?
/etc/profile is for Bash. I don't think gdm cares about that. But, in
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf there is this parameter (which I have set to english):
DefaultLocale=english
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