Date: 14 Dec 2001 16:42:20 -0600 From: Michael Harnois <mharnois@cpinternet.com> To: Richard Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com>, marcus@marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdm and environment variables Message-ID: <1008369740.883.0.camel@mharnois.workgroup.net> In-Reply-To: <20011214120051.7b0fe1d3.rjk@grauel.com> References: <864rmtdcfp.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> <20011214105836.V82637-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20011214120051.7b0fe1d3.rjk@grauel.com>
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Well, Joe's solution doesn't make any difference here, and "C" doesn't
appear as an option in gdmconfig, so I'l still stumped.
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 11:00, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> 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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