----- Forwarded message from Ernst Sonnleitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
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 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 .... .... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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" --------------------- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | The basic test of freedom is perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | less in what we are free to do than in [EMAIL PROTECTED] | what we are free not to do. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Eric Hoffer
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