Gdm and user localization

[Marcin Wisnicki]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:10:37 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:02 +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote:
>>
>> 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

another way is to create file /etc/sysconfig/language with:

echo it_IT.UTF-8