On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:07:39AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > I can't seem to set the default locale to en_US.UTF8 for GDM. When I > change the settings at the GDM window, it offers to make my new locale > the default. I always say "Yes" to this prompt, but whenever I log in to > GDM again, I get the old default: iso-8859-1. > > The Gnome help pages say that I can define ~/.dmrc, I can set the > language for my account, but this does not work; the file is completely > ignored. Also, ".gdmrc" is ignored. How can I set the default locale? > > I'm using i386 Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27. GDM is 2.6.0.8.
Thats a bit old ;-) What happens if you "dpkg-reconfigure locales" as root and choose the default there. I'm guessing gdm is asking just for that session. -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
