Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:29:48 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.2 & environment variables set in login.conf Message-ID: <20070605182948.E31B845042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:54:32 PDT." <958545.72886.qm@web56513.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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--==_Exmh_1181068188_74263P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:54:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > --- Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > On 2007-06-03 07:38 -0700, Neil Short > > <neshort@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > How do you export those variables successfully in > > > ~/.xsession? It still doesn't help with me. > > > > > > check this out: > > > > > > $ locale > > > LANG=en_US > > > > This is not a valid locale! You have a choice > > between: > > > > en_US.ISO8859-1 > > en_US.ISO8859-15 > > en_US.US-ASCII > > en_US.UTF-8 > > > > [...] > > > $ echo $LC_ALL > > > en_US > > > $ perl > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale > > settings: > > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > > LANG = "en_US" > > > are supported and installed on your system. > > > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale > > ("C"). > > > > Yes, and perl tells you, that en_US just isn't > > specific enough > > for its needs ... > > > > It's up to you whether you prefer en_US.US-ASCII, > > en_US.ISO8859-1, > > or en_US.UTF-8 (e.g. depending on whether you at > > least occasionally > > work with foreign language texts). > > > > Regards, STefan > > > > That did the trick. I appreciate it. > Just for the documentation of it all -- I messed up by > putting my language setting under the "default:" > catagory in /etc/login.conf. > I needed to ALSO create a separate "me:" catagory like > so: > me:\ > :tc=default: > > I suppose the real moral to the story is: be very > careful what you overwrite during mergemaster. It's my > guess that I overwrote /etc/login.conf at some point > when my eyes were glassed over. And 'mergemaster -U' is probably your best friend for letting you be very, very careful without spending all day doing the merge. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1181068188_74263P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFGZauckn3rs5h7N1ERAt/nAJ0arVUv8UcSjKoZXkrReRlwH5yaLACeNkN1 YaX5Z9BS+feSs1Hq8XG8ycY= =Vh23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1181068188_74263P--
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