From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 22:30:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4BA16A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt22.cluster1.charter.net (remt22.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F4E43FE0 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt22.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 14883315; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:30:49 -0400 Received: by gforce.johnson.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 476AD6191; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:30:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:30:46 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20031005053046.GA916@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Marcus Clarke , Gnome-FreeBSD List References: <20031004045826.GA1198@gforce.johnson.home> <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031005033521.GA820@gforce.johnson.home> <1065327993.385.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031005050135.GA870@gforce.johnson.home> <1065331142.385.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1065331142.385.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Gnome-FreeBSD List Subject: Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 05:30:51 -0000 On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:19:02AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:01, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:26:33AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:35, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:56:40PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 00:58, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to set my language to "American English" in > > > > > > gdm2.4.4.3 but it gives an error the "en.US" is not found > > > > > > and it uses the system default. The problem with that is > > > > > > the system default does not show all of the characters. This > > > > > > is particularly a problem with trying to use digraphs in vim > > > > > > running in a gnome-terminal. Setting the language in gdm > > > > > > used to do the right thing. > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > I just did this, and it worked (i.e. it > > > > > set LANG to en_US.ISO_8859-1). Check your > > > > > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.aliases file to see what American > > > > > English is mapped to. > > > > > > > > The following is grepped from locale.alias in > > > > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm: > > > > > > > > English(American) en_US.UTF-8,en_US.ISO_8859-1 > > > > > > Looks like gdm-2.4.4.x changed things. Look for ~/.dmrc. > > > > I have that one. Here are the contents: > > > > [Desktop] > > Session=gnome > > Try adding: > > Language=en_US.ISO_8859-1 > > And see if that helps. I tried it, but no joy. When I logged in with gdm, I got the following message in a dialog box: Language en_US.ISO_8859-1 does not exist. Using System default. Of course, that brings me right back where I was. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net