Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:00:51 -0500 From: Richard Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm and environment variables Message-ID: <20011214120051.7b0fe1d3.rjk@grauel.com> In-Reply-To: <20011214105836.V82637-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <864rmtdcfp.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> <20011214105836.V82637-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:02:26 -0500 (EST)
Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> This is an easy fix, and I should have submitted a PR, but you can get
> away without doing any patching.
>
> One option involves editing /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.alias, and change
> the "english" locale to either en_US.ISO_8859-1 or en_GB.ISO_8859-1
> depending on what English you prefer. If you don't feel like editing a
> file, just make sure you select either American English or British
English
> from the Language menu in gdm.
>
> Joe
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Michael Harnois wrote:
>
> > Something about the difference between gdm and xdm seems to cause
> > certain important environment variables not to get set, i.e. using
> > perl generates messages like
> >
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > LANG = "en_US"
> > are supported and installed on your system.
> >
> > Anyone have a clue?
Another option is to run gdmconfig, go to the Basic/Login behaviour screen
and change the default locale to something that works better for you. I
chose "C".
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