From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 14 14:41:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from seagull.cpinternet.com (mail.cpinternet.com [209.240.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EEA37B416 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from 209.240.253.23 ([209.240.253.23]) by seagull.cpinternet.com (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fBEMfRe1009590 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:41:28 -0600 (CST) Received: by 209.240.253.23 (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5235C14A13; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:42:20 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: gdm and environment variables From: Michael Harnois To: Richard Kuhns , marcus@marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 14 Dec 2001 16:42:20 -0600 Message-Id: <1008369740.883.0.camel@mharnois.workgroup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 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 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 > -- Michael D. Harnois bilocational bivocational Pastor, Redeemer Lutheran Church Washburn, Iowa 1L, UST School of Law Minneapolis, Minnesota If you want to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood. --Daniel Berrigan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message