Gdm and user localization

Marcin Wisnicki mwisnicki+freebsd at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 09:40:06 PDT 2007


On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:07:12 +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote:
> 
>> another way is to create file /etc/sysconfig/language with:
>> 
>> echo it_IT.UTF-8
>> 
> This doesn't work and I didn't find any documentation about it in the
> FreeBSD world, but only under Suse and other linux distro
> 

Look into /usr/local/sbin/gdm, it's a shell script.

It sources /etc/profile and then if LANG is still unset it will
evaluate /etc/sysconfig/languages as value of LANG.

Both ways work for me.



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