From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 22:56:51 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 D7EB816A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt21.cluster1.charter.net (remt21.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D944343FFB for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt21.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 14749904; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:56:49 -0400 Received: by gforce.johnson.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C77A66191; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:56:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:56:48 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20031005055648.GA1402@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> <20031005053046.GA916@gforce.johnson.home> <1065332594.385.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1065332594.385.6.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 05:56:52 -0000 On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:43:14AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:30, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > 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. > > Try: > > en_US.ISO8859-1 That works! I went ahead and removed the Language line from ~/.dmrc and edited the gdm locale.alias file to change en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.ISO8859-1 to make sure that gdm would handle it correctly. It did. After I logged in, the Language entry was back in my ~/.dmrc file and digraphs work in vim in a gnome-terminal again. Looking at what is in /usr/share/locale, I guess all of those entries in the gdm locale.alias file are incorrect. Thanks for your help. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net