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Date:      Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:59:21 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        Thiago Rodrigues Santos <thiago.r6@gmail.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: set GDM language
Message-ID:  <45C77079.8030203@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1170696761.856.10.camel@localhost>
References:  <1170696761.856.10.camel@localhost>

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Thiago Rodrigues Santos wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to know if it's possible to change the language of GDM, because
> it is always displayed in English. I mean the language in the display
> manager itself, not in GNOME.
> 
> The most I could do was to set the LANG variable for root and start GDM
> by hand (using the 'gdm' command). But it didn't work using
> '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm restart'.

The language can be set from a pull-down in the GDM login GUI.  However, 
you can set the initial language by modifying the GDM custom.conf.  See 
the GDM documentation for more details.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
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