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Date:      Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:01:35 -0500
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Gnome-FreeBSD List <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4
Message-ID:  <20031005050135.GA870@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <1065327993.385.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20031004045826.GA1198@gforce.johnson.home> <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031005033521.GA820@gforce.johnson.home> <1065327993.385.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:26:33AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:35, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:56:40PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 00:58, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I tried to set my language to "American English" in gdm2.4.4.3
> > > > but it gives an error the "en.US" is not found and it uses the
> > > > system default.  The problem with that is the system default
> > > > does not show all of the characters. This is particularly
> > > > a problem with trying to use digraphs in vim running in a
> > > > gnome-terminal. Setting the language in gdm used to do the right
> > > > thing.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas? Thanks.
> > >
> > > I just did this, and it worked (i.e. it set LANG to
> > > en_US.ISO_8859-1).  Check your /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.aliases
> > > file to see what American English is mapped to.
> >
> > The following is grepped from locale.alias in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm:
> >
> > English(American) en_US.UTF-8,en_US.ISO_8859-1
>
> Looks like gdm-2.4.4.x changed things.  Look for ~/.dmrc.

I have that one.  Here are the contents:

[Desktop]
Session=gnome

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net



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