Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:30:46 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Gnome-FreeBSD List <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4 Message-ID: <20031005053046.GA916@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <1065331142.385.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> 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>
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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
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