gdm 2.20 doesn't respect login.conf?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at freebsd.org
Sun Oct 7 13:08:06 PDT 2007


Yuri Pankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After login with gdm, I have LC_* and LANG variables reset to "C",
> though I have following for my login class in /etc/login.conf:
>         :charset=UTF-8:\
>         :lang=en_US.UTF-8:
> (which works if I login in console and use startx) or even `login` in
> terminal inside GNOME:
> darklight:yuri:~> locale
> LANG=C
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_ALL=
> darklight:yuri:~> login
> login: yuri
> Last login: Fri Oct  5 19:39:26 on ttyp0
> Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights
> reserved.
> 
> FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (DARKLIGHT) #0: Wed Oct  3 09:12:33 MSD 2007
> darklight:yuri:~> locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here, or anyone else is seeing the same?

This might very well be the case.  GDM and l10n were discussed recently
on this list, and login.conf wasn't raised.  Additional code may need to
be added to GDM to support it.

Joe

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