XDM change languages Gnome

[Denise H. G.]

On 2010/10/26 at 18:30, Klaus Friis Østergaard <farremosen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I use xdm and xdmcp as login for thin clients on my system. Now I have a
> problem, I need Danish as lang  setting for the gnome desktop, before I have
> used GDM where it was possible to choose Dansih as lang for the gnome
> session.
> 
> 
> I have modified the
> 
> /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession in the 2nd last line
> 
> From
>     exec /usr/local/bin/xsm
> to
>     exec gnome-session
> 
> Any help apriciated
> 
> At the moment I am not able to use GDM even if it does provide the change of
> languages.
> 
> /Klaus
> ................ 

how about $HOME/.dmrc ?
It seems this file controls language settings in GNOME.
For me it just contains only three lines as follows:

------ dot.dmrc ------
[Desktop]
Language=zh_CN.UTF-8
Layout=us
------ dot.dmrc ------

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