Hi, the problem is solved now, and I believe it to be related to a setting in /etc/default/gdm. For some reason, the file contained the following:
# GDM Defaults, source in the init script that starts GDM. LANG setting is # taken from the locales package by default. LANG=de_DE export LANG I have changed the third line to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 so (together with my settings in ~.xsession) I have the all-unicode system I want (perhaps this was a problem of gdm/X running with iso and oowriter with UTF-8 locale?). Big CAVEAT: I tried to change that setting back today to reproduce the problem two weeks after it went away by fiddling, and I can't reproduce it... Florian
