From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 14 9: 1: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from holmes.grauel.com (holmes.grauel.com [199.233.104.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1F737B417 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:00:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from moriarity.grauel.com (moriarity [199.233.104.37]) by holmes.grauel.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with SMTP id fBEH0ou50442 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:00:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rjk@grauel.com) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:00:51 -0500 From: Richard Kuhns 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> Organization: Grauel Enterprises, Inc X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:02:26 -0500 (EST) Joe Clarke 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". -- Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message