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From: Ernst Sonnleitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xdm don't run his start script with german settings (LANG=de_DE)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:33:28 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon,
Dec 11, 2000 at 10:31:48PM -0500
Organization: nobody is perfect
Hello
If I don't set locale xdm work well
-> login with user/password
->my windowsmanager starts ....
....
es@sonnleitner:~$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
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If I set my "locale" with /etc/language-de
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: language-de,v 1.4 1998/02/20 18:34:36 leutloff Exp $
# settings for german speaking users
set LANG
LANG=de_DE
export LANG
and activates it with
/etc/X11/Xsession:
if [ -f /etc/language-de ]; then source
/etc/language-de; fi
/etc/profile:
if [ -f /etc/language-de ]; then source /etc/language-de;
fi
es@sonnleitner:~$ locale
LANG=de_DE
LC_CTYPE="de_DE"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE"
LC_TIME="de_DE"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE"
LC_PAPER="de_DE"
LC_NAME="de_DE"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE"
LC_ALL=
xdm started but after the loginscreen,
after user/password return
there is only one xterm open, no windowmanager started.
I have read about that as the emergency screen, normaly touched with
user/password F1
with the possibility to repair a bad start script.
Regards Ernst
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