Thanks (was Re: Changing language for GDM)

[Daniel Díaz <al590349 mail mty itesm mx>]

Thanks to George and Chookij!

I thought /usr/bin/gdm was a binary that launched gdm-binary (I know: 
duh!), so I just had to edit that file.

The only thing that I had to add was the LANGUAGE and the LC_ALL 
variables in /usr/bin/gdm so that I could have the messages and the 
date in Spanish.

And now it's alright!

Thanks a lot!

Daniel Díaz
yosoy danieldiaz org



On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 03:31  PM, George wrote:

> 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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> George <jirka 5z com>
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