GDM and login.conf(5)

[Oleg Lomaka]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:01:35 -0500, Oleg Lomaka 
> <oleg.lomaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:24:34 -0500, Oleg Lomaka 
>>> <oleg.lomaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> After upgrading to gnome 2.20.1 gdm ignores ~/.login_conf at my 
>>>> laptop. Does anybody have the same problem or I have broken something?
>>>
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2007-October/018297.html 
>>>
>> Thanks for this hint. I've set my default encoding to UTF-8 by adding 
>> Language parameter to ~/.dmrc file. But is it possible also to set 
>> LC_MESSAGES variable somehow?
>
> I have no idea for ~/.dmrc.. Maybe edit in /etc/profile or ~/.profile 
> will working? I haven't tried to test with profile for gdm. Something 
> like this:
>
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8; export LANG
> LC_MESSAGES=C; export LC_MESSAGES
I had tried this just after upgrade :(
Ok, thanks anyway. Will try to see what was changed from 2.18 release 
concerning this issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>>>> tdevil% cat ~/.login_conf
>>>> # $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login_conf,v 1.3 2001/06/10 17:08:53 
>>>> ache Exp $
>>>> #
>>>> # see login.conf(5)
>>>> #
>>>> #me:\
>>>> #       :charset=iso-8859-1:\
>>>> #       :lang=de_DE.ISO8859-1:
>>>> me:\
>>>>         :setenv=LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8,LC_MESSAGES=C
>>>>
>>>> tdevil% echo $LANG
>>>> C
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>
>