Up until GNOME 2.20, GDM would read the locale settings from /etc/login.conf or ~/.login.conf. - 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 - ~/.profile:
+ This was broken in 2.20, and finally restored in GDM + 2.26.1_3. + +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 /etc/login.conf, you can set the + locale by adding the following to ~/.profile:
export LANG=<locale> @@ -1123,7 +1122,9 @@ export LC_ALL=<locale> (e.g. en_US.UTF-8, es_ES.ISO8859-15, fr_FR.ISO8859-1, etc.).To set the default locale for the GDM greeter, add the - same environment variables to /etc/profile.
+ same environment variables to /etc/profile or + define gdm_lang to the desired locale + in /etc/rc.conf.