Bug 69673 - gdm does not use /etc/sysconfig/i18n
Summary: gdm does not use /etc/sysconfig/i18n
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: gdm
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks: 67218
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-24 12:07 UTC by Harald Hoyer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-08-28 22:00:55 UTC
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Description Harald Hoyer 2002-07-24 12:07:22 UTC 
LANG != en_US and greeting and menus are in english...
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-07 23:33:49 UTC 
Does this still happen with latest? the po files seem to exist and have
translations in them...
Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2002-08-08 07:09:07 UTC 
gdm-2.4.0.4-1 says:
"Welcome to <hostname>

Please enter your username"

The Options menu says: "Select a language for ...", although the buttons are
translated..
The System menu is also untranslated..
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-14 04:35:26 UTC 
Oh, I see - gdm doesn't use the system language, you have to set the locale 
in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. It's been that way for several releases...
Comment 4 Elliot Lee 2002-08-26 17:51:43 UTC 
setting it in gdm.conf does no good either from what I can tell, _and_ it's broken to have a 
separate setting.
Comment 5 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-26 18:21:55 UTC 
I had to telinit 3 + telinit 5 after changing the language in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
Comment 6 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-28 16:44:46 UTC 
alex are you saying gdm does use /etc/sysconfig/i18n for you?
Comment 7 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-28 18:34:12 UTC 
yes. if i restart gdm
Comment 8 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-28 22:00:46 UTC 
harald, does /etc/sysconfig/i18n work for you? 

Here is the relevant code:

/* no language set, use the GdmDefaultLocale */
  if (GdmDefaultLocale != NULL &&
      strlen (GdmDefaultLocale) != 0 &&
      g_getenv ("LANG") == NULL &&
      g_getenv ("LC_ALL") == NULL)
    setlocale (LC_ALL, GdmDefaultLocale);
  else
    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
Comment 9 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-28 23:35:17 UTC 
/etc/sysconfig/i18n works for me, and I believe if LANG/LC_ALL were unset it
would fall back to the thing in gdm.conf.

Reopen if someone else can reproduce it not working...
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