Language solved. I put a export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 just before calling gnome-session and it passed it thru. I was puzzled by this, because all other window managers had english. Gnome setup is odd to say the least. Thanks for your help.
On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:23 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9/1/11 2:49 PM, Richard Miles wrote: >> Somehow the gnome menus have Japanese descriptions. How do I set >> them to be english. They used to be english, but now are Japanese? >> I don’t know Japanese and need these menus in english. >> >> Richard Miles [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > I'm surprised that your .bashrc isn't passing your LANG setting on to X11. > > In any case, the GNOME menus are multilingual, and whatever got set up > for Japanese on your system is telling them to display in Japanese. > The best bet is to look for what's causing that. > - -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk5gvLAACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/fUQCfaWG9ZRrD7EM1z/D91ntRfuO0 > KUcAnj4s/mtjE/Y23JCXnuqNBOB8tZhg > =obWf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Richard Miles [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
