Suggest: gdm_lang flag for gdm startup language

Daichi GOTO daichi at ongs.co.jp
Tue Apr 14 03:18:11 UTC 2009


Hi gnome guys,

I want to suggest follow patch to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm
RGng script setting default startup language. With follow
patch, someone want to use gdm as non-English default, e.g.,
adding gdm_lang="ja_JP.UTF-8" to /etc/rc.conf is anwser.

It is bothering me every day first time I must set Japanese
when gdm login display. Do you have any ideas?  If you have
no objection, I want to commit to /usr/ports/x11/gdm/files/gdm.in

Thanks :)


--- gdm.orig	2009-04-14 11:55:01.000000000 +0900
+++ gdm	2009-04-14 11:54:36.000000000 +0900
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@

  gdm_enable=${gdm_enable-${gnome_enable}}
  gdm_preserve_base_pam_conf=${gdm_preserve_base_pam_conf-NO}
+gdm_lang=${gdm_lang-${LANG}}

  export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@
  	sleep 1
  	iter=$(expr ${iter} + 1)
      done
-    ${command} ${gdm_flags} ) &
+    LANG=${gdm_lang} ${command} ${gdm_flags} ) &
  }

  load_rc_config ${name}


-- 
   Daichi GOTO, http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi



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