Hi Matt! > > What exactly happens there? I found a new file ~/.gnome/gdm: > > [session] > > last=Gnome > > lang=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 > > Perhaps this file (and the corresponding GDM 2.4 file in ~/.gnome2) > should be added to the language-env tool.
After hours of searching I can really support that :-) > Currently, language-env sets up the environment that your shell uses, > which is why you see the correct locale from inside the terminal (once > you have started a shell). But gnome-session is started by GDM, not by > your shell, and your gnome desktop is started by gnome-session. I don't know any internals - but gnome-session runs as my user, so isn't there a possibility to read my environment variables before executing it? > It would also help if GDM sourced /etc/environment and used the settings > there as defaults. That wouldn't change anything for me (I have root with LANG=C and my user, so I didn't touch /etc/environment), but for every installation with more users this would be a good idea I think. -- MfG Thomas Mueller - http://www.tmueller.com for pgp key (95702B3B)
