GDM and login.conf(5)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Oleg Lomaka wrote:
> 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.

There IS support for login.conf in GDM, and it should be working.
However, the locale may be immediately overridden by "C" if LC_CTYPE is
not properly defined.  Therefore, try adding LC_CTYPE to login.conf
(though I'm not sure if this will work).

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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