Gdm and user localization

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Fri Aug 31 00:10:48 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:02 +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:03 -0300, Thiago wrote:
> >> 2007/8/30, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>:
> >>> The language can be set in your session configuration.
> >> This will change the language of the gnome session, but not of gdm itself.
> > 
> > For setting the language for GDM itself, you will need to do this in the
> > gdm rc.d script.
> > 
> > Joe
> How?
> 
> Seems that gdm use the system default language, but how can I set the
> system default language?
> 
> I can set the user language (in .login_conf) or the user-class language
> (in login.conf) but how can I set a system default language?
> 
> Through an environment variable?

For now, edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm and add:

export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8

Joe

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