Re: gdm and locales

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> is there a possibility to localize gdm? I can change the language in
> the gdm menu and have DefaultLocale=german in gdm.conf, but the menu
> buttons itself stay in english.

To localize GDM, you need to control which language is the systemwide
default language. (The value of the the LC_ALL environment variable
when GDM is run.)

Under Red Hat, you would do this with the locale_config utility.
(Or by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n.)

Regards,
                                        Owen