On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, christophe barbé wrote: > I've done the following : > rm /etc/environment > touch /etc/environment > apt-get install gdm > /etc/init.d/gdm start > choosen french language > login as normal user > and ... gnome start in english ! > > So my conclusion is that it's a debian gdm bug. > I can set my locale normally for startx and xdm but not with gdm.
No. It's probably a X11 bug. Let me guess/explain. gdm declares language using aliases in /etc/locale.alias So it declares a french language reading this file. It uses the fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 alias (just read the file). BUT, there is a bug in X11 (I submitted this as 76906 initially). The expected locale (for X11) is fr_FR.ISO8859-1 so that when used, the locale is not recognized. X11 falls back to the "C" locale, thus making all panel applications in gnome being in english. Just try: export LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-1; gnotes-applet (or any other applet). If the applet is (correctly) in French, then you can submit a new bug to xlibs (to be merged with others). The (quick and dirty) bugfix is to edit /etc/locale.alias to rewrite fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 in fr_FR.ISO8859-1 Good luck. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- ATER en informatique à l'université de Caen
