On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 13:46, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>wrote:
> Set a language at the gdm screen, and when prompted, tell it to make > this new language/locale the default for your user, and it adds > information to that effect to your ~/.dmrc Then, next time that user > logs in, they get that chosen language/locale. Such a user will find > that their shell locale is correct, too, when they open up a terminal > window. Job done. User does not need to care where the info is stored > or how it works. User never edits a ~/.anything file! It just works. Right, the problem is when you want to "mix and match" locales. In my situation, I simply want to change my time to 24-hour and my "first weekday" to Monday, but retain everything else in en_US. Since GNOME does not offer any way to do this, shell environment variables are the only way I know how to do this. Do you really truly need more that this? Is there really a bug here? > If so, what exactly is the bug? That I cannot customize my locale settings within a language (specifically changing the time mode and first weekday, but I could not change any other setting either). > If you have a question (as opposed to a bug), then you could try using > LaunchPad "Answers" to ask it, and see if you get a solid answer to it > there. It might be good to phrase the question in terms of the user > requirement "how do I achieve result X", rather than in terms of the > method "how do I get GNOME to read locale settings from shell > initialization file Y", for best results. I'm inclined to think there's a bug (as I mentioned above) mainly because no one seems to know how to do this in GNOME. Missing/undiscoverable functionality is still a bug. But fair enough; I should exhaust all resources: https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-common/+question/60699 Interestingly, I found this question, which doesn't really shed any light at all: https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-common/+question/6311 If no further information comes to light in the next 48 hours, I will report this upstream and work with other GNOME BugSquad members to triage it. -- Locale settings in shell initialization not used by GNOME session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306591 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to meta-gnome2 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
