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[Acronym] for the __G__nome __D__isplay __M__anager, gdm(8) A complete rewrite of xdm(1). It's the bit that displays the graphical login screen on a [GNOME] machine. ---- 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. 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. 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]. 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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