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Update the question on how to set the locale in GDM.

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Joe Marcus Clarke 2009-05-31 20:06:08 +00:00
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<!-- A29 -->
<p>Up until GNOME 2.20, GDM would read the locale settings
from <tt>/etc/login.conf</tt> or <tt>~/.login.conf</tt>.
This was broken in 2.20, and since GDM 2.22 will use
a new locale scheme, it will not be fixed. However, all
hope is not lost. It is actually very easy to set the
locale for use with the GNOME Destop. GDM offers a
pull-down Language menu from which you can choose your
current locale. If you would rather not use this menu,
you can set the locale by adding the following to
<tt>~/.profile</tt>:</p>
This was broken in 2.20, and finally restored in GDM
2.26.1_3.</p>
<p>However, GDM also offers a pull-down Language menu from which
you can choose your current locale. If you would rather not
use this menu or <tt>/etc/login.conf</tt>, you can set the
locale by adding the following to <tt>~/.profile</tt>:</p>
<pre>
export LANG=&lt;locale&gt;
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(e.g. en_US.UTF-8, es_ES.ISO8859-15, fr_FR.ISO8859-1, etc.).</p>
<p>To set the default locale for the GDM greeter, add the
same environment variables to <tt>/etc/profile</tt>.</p>
same environment variables to <tt>/etc/profile</tt> or
define <tt>gdm_lang</tt> to the desired locale
in <tt>/etc/rc.conf</tt>.</p>
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