Re: Changing language for GDM

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:21:11PM -0500, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello there!
> I recently changed to GDM and I like it a lot.
> In the home page you could see some nice screenshots with Czech instead
> of English.
> How could I do that? I've been looking for a while in the 'net, and found
> only Debian-related messages about using /etc/environment, but that doesn't
> seem to work.
> I'm using Mandrake 9.0, with GDM 2.4.0.11.
> I already tried changing the /etc/X11/prefdm script, so that LANG=es_MX
> is set before launching gdm, but still with no success.
> Any hints?
> Thanks in advance!

Well gdm will read whatever is setup by the default gdm environment for the
system.  I'm not at all sure how debian works.  If you want a quick hack you
can modify the /usr/bin/gdm script so that when it runs gdm-binary it sets
LANG=es_MX.

On RedHat you modify /etc/sysconfig/i18n, perhaps debian has something like
that?

George

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