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Newer page: version 6 Last edited on Thursday, July 7, 2005 9:38:22 am by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 5 Last edited on Saturday, March 5, 2005 3:30:18 am by ChristofferSawicki Revert
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 A complete rewrite of xdm(1). 
  
 It's the bit that displays the graphical login screen on a [GNOME] machine. 
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-GDM (at least for version 2.4.0 and later) in Debian completely ignores your default language/encoding settings, even though the "locales" package sets up the LANG variable in the /etc/environment file. The package maintainer argues that this file is only supposed to be used by [PAM], so in the meantime nothing is done. Great.  
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-The best workaround so far is to add  
- auth required pam_env.so  
-into /etc/pam.d/gdm so that the LANG variable gets set to your system's default.  
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-Another method is to add the line  
- LANG=`grep ^LANG= /etc/environment | sed -e "s/^LANG=//"`  
-to /etc/init.d/gdm, although this is less tidy [IMHO].  
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-See  
-http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=147091 and the thread containing http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2003/debian-gtk-gnome-200309/msg00084.html.  
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-(This was fixed in gdm 2.4.1.7, see /etc/default/gdm.)