On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:04:28PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > > I wants to get german menues in gdm for my users, which implies > setting the LC_ALL environment variable to de_DE. I did this in the > /etc/profile, but this only helps after gdm is restarted. > > I understand that gdm starts before the /etc/profile settings are > worked out. How to set some variables early enough?
/etc/profile is for Bash. I don't think gdm cares about that. But, in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf there is this parameter (which I have set to english): DefaultLocale=english -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
