On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:08:40AM -0400, Sean Harshbarger wrote: > This problem plauged me when I was unoffically maintaining the gdm > package. For some reason gdm will not take the system wide locale if > launched from init.d. I never did solve this.
This is because init never reads /etc/environment (since it is read by pam_env, and init does not log on). So I did include in my /etc/init.d/gdm: set -a . /etc/environment set +a near the top of the file.
