set GDM language

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Thiago Rodrigues Santos wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to know if it's possible to change the language of GDM, because
> it is always displayed in English. I mean the language in the display
> manager itself, not in GNOME.
> 
> The most I could do was to set the LANG variable for root and start GDM
> by hand (using the 'gdm' command). But it didn't work using
> '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm restart'.

The language can be set from a pull-down in the GDM login GUI.  However, 
you can set the initial language by modifying the GDM custom.conf.  See 
the GDM documentation for more details.

Joe

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