> Hello everybody, > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > > > Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/06/2000 (12:12) : > > > > > > due to some misconfiguration mine my whole GNOME now > > > appears in complete English language - the menus as well as each > > > dialogue box and so on... Until yesterday it ran in German so could > > > it be that I have deleted an important file or something similar ? > > > > > > Does anyone of you have a hint on this ? I mean there must be a > > > global configuration file GNOME uses... > > > > Not GNOME, but the whole system. > > You need to set the environments LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS. You can add it > > to you .bashrc file (assuming that you use bash) > > > > I'm not sure if this is correct for German, but I would guess: > > > > export LANG=de > > export LC_ALL=de_DE > > export LINGUAS=de > > Should be LANG=de_DE in the first case, I think. > But the reason, why I contribute to this threat is another one. I > encountered a similar problem, when I installed gdm (or xdm or wdm). The > point is, that obviously, your .bashrc doesn't get read, if you use some > display manager, so the language doesn't get set correctly. You can choose > language in the gdm start-menu, but this didn't work, I got my session in > english. I suppose one could set a system wide default for the language, > but I don't want to do this, as I prefer to use the C lang-setting for > root. > So does anybody know a way to deal with this (get german language settings > even when using a display manager)? > Regards, > Daniel >
I have a if [ -z "$MANPATH" ]; then export MANPATH=$(/usr/bin/manpath) fi in my ~/.xsession. I believe that you can do something similar with the C lang-setting. -- -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>