Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:46:42 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Michael Harnois <mharnois@cpinternet.com> Cc: Richard Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com>, <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gdm and environment variables Message-ID: <20011214174534.M82637-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1008369740.883.0.camel@mharnois.workgroup.net>
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Doh! I am going to have to write a PR. Edit
/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.alias, and change english.us to:
en_US.ISO_8859-1
Note the change of a '-' to a '_'. Then, restart gdm, and select American
English as your Language. You should be set. I'll write up the PR.
Joe
On 14 Dec 2001, Michael Harnois wrote:
> 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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