[ernst_sonnleitner@freenet.de: xdm don't run his start script with german settings (LANG=de_DE)]

[branden@deadbeast.net (Branden Robinson)]

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From: Ernst Sonnleitner <ernst_sonnleitner@freenet.de>
To: Branden Robinson <branden@deadbeast.net>
Subject: xdm don't run his start script with german settings (LANG=de_DE)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:33:28 +0100
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Hello

If I don't set locale xdm work well 
-> login with user/password
 ->my windowsmanager starts ....
....
es@sonnleitner:~$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
---------------------
 If I set my "locale" with /etc/language-de

#!/bin/sh                                                                       
# $Id: language-de,v 1.4 1998/02/20 18:34:36 leutloff Exp $                     
# settings for german speaking users                                            
set LANG
LANG=de_DE                                                                     
export LANG                                                                    
 
and activates it with  
/etc/X11/Xsession:
if [ -f /etc/language-de ]; then source
/etc/language-de; fi

/etc/profile:
if [ -f /etc/language-de ]; then source /etc/language-de;
fi

es@sonnleitner:~$ locale 
LANG=de_DE
LC_CTYPE="de_DE"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE"
LC_TIME="de_DE"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE"
LC_PAPER="de_DE"
LC_NAME="de_DE"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE"
LC_ALL=

xdm started but after the loginscreen,
after user/password return
there is only one xterm open, no windowmanager started. 
I have read about that as the emergency screen, normaly touched with
user/password F1
with the possibility to repair a bad start script.

Regards Ernst

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