Re: BTS: howto reassign a bug

2001-07-10 Thread christophe barbé
Yes I've changed the french entry in the locale.alias file and it works. So now I agree this is not a gdm bug. But gdm is the only one to use this file. The file etc/locale.alias comes from the base/locales package. I don't understand where's the problem. Is this a locales bug or another package ?

Re: BTS: howto reassign a bug

2001-07-10 Thread jcdubacq
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

Re: BTS: howto reassign a bug

2001-07-10 Thread christophe barbé
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

Re: BTS: howto reassign a bug

2001-07-10 Thread Matti Airas
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:02:40PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: > So you said me that a global setting override the user choice. > With xdm, I use a .Xsession where I can set my locale setting. > With startx, I use .xinitrc. > But with gdm, the normal way to set your locale is to choose the lang

Re: BTS: howto reassign a bug

2001-07-10 Thread christophe barbé
So you said me that a global setting override the user choice. With xdm, I use a .Xsession where I can set my locale setting. With startx, I use .xinitrc. But with gdm, the normal way to set your locale is to choose the language from the language menu. This should work even if the /etc/environment

Re: BTS: howto reassign a bug

2001-07-10 Thread Matti Airas
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:12:19PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=102691&repeatmerged=yes Hi Christophe, If I remember correctly, your problem is actually not a gdm bug, but the LANG (or LC_ALL) environment variable is set to "C" somewhere, over