Re: Gnome-Language...

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>]

> Hello everybody, 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> > Oliver Schoenknecht <oschoenknecht@kapa.de> wrote on 08/06/2000 (12:12) :
> > >
> > > due to some misconfiguration mine my whole GNOME now 
> > > appears in complete English language - the menus as well as each 
> > > dialogue box and so on... Until yesterday it ran in German so could 
> > > it be that I have deleted an important file or something similar ?
> > > 
> > > Does anyone of you have a hint on this ? I mean there must be a 
> > > global configuration file GNOME uses...
> > 
> > Not GNOME, but the whole system.
> > You need to set the environments LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS. You can add it
> > to you .bashrc file (assuming that you use bash)
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this is correct for German, but I would guess:
> > 
> > export LANG=de
> > export LC_ALL=de_DE
> > export LINGUAS=de
> 
> Should be LANG=de_DE in the first case, I think. 
> But the reason, why I contribute to this threat is another one. I
> encountered a similar problem, when I installed gdm (or xdm or wdm). The
> point is, that obviously, your .bashrc doesn't get read, if you use some
> display manager, so the language doesn't get set correctly. You can choose
> language in the gdm start-menu, but this didn't work, I got my session in
> english. I suppose one could set a system wide default for the language,
> but I don't want to do this, as I prefer to use the C lang-setting for
> root.
> So does anybody know a way to deal with this (get german language settings
> even when using a display manager)?
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 


I have a 

if [ -z "$MANPATH" ]; then
  export MANPATH=$(/usr/bin/manpath)
fi

in my ~/.xsession. I believe that you can do something similar with the C 
lang-setting.
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	--  Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>



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	--  Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>