ports/117724: Recently updated x11/gdm port ignores $LANG setting in /etc/login.conf

[marcus at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: Recently updated x11/gdm port ignores $LANG setting in /etc/login.conf

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: marcus
State-Changed-When: Sat Feb 9 16:33:37 UTC 2008
State-Changed-Why: 
This is true, and it doesn't look like it will be fixed any time soon given
that gdm 2.22 will be a rewrite.  However, there is a very easy workaround.
Add the following to ~/.profile:

GDM_LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15 ; export GDM_LANG

That will set your locale accordingly when you login through GDM.

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