Re: GMC ignoring user mime info

[Daniel Lyddy <daniell cs berkeley edu>]

Jürgen Salk wrote:
> 
> Date sent:              Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:02:34 -0700
> From:                   Daniel Lyddy <daniell@cs.berkeley.edu>
> Organization:           UC-Berkeley ViVE Lab/California PATH
> To:                     GNOME Users <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> Subject:                Re: GMC ignoring user mime info
> 
> > ZekeVarg wrote:
> > >
> > > You can try to remove "[en]" infront of each line
> >
> > I tried this, but as soon as I log out and login again (restarting gmc),
> > some program or script puts the [en] stuff right back in front of each
> > line.  What is [en] supposed to mean, I assumed it meant "English," is
> > this some kind of locale designator?
> >
> > If so, how do I get gmc to either ignore it or use it properly?
> 
> I have had the same problem with german locale setting (see thread
> "mime/file types" from Aug. 10th on this list).
> 
> If I recall correctly, each time you fiddle with mime types via
> gnome control center it puts those [...] stuff back, unless locales
> are set to "C" or "Posix".

Hi Jurgen:

This sounds like it's on the right track.  Where do you set locale
information, is it something in gdm's config file?  I will go take a
look and see if there's anything relevant in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.

Dan
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