Mick writes:
> On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote:
> > I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain
> > user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale?
> >
> > I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user
> > still shows all settings as "en_US.UTF-8" ... where is this US
> > setting read from?
>
> Oops! This is more complicated that I thought ...
>
> If, always as a plain user, I use aterm then /etc/env.d/02locale is
> read and LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. However, if I use xterm it is still
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads /etc/profile,
which reads /etc/profile.env (and ~/.[bash]profile). xterm is not a login
shell, and reads /etc/bash/bashrc (and ~/.bashrc). You can call xterm with
the -ls option to make it alogin shell. For konsole, I have set it to
execute bash -l to make it a login shell.
Another workaround might be to read /etc/profile.env in your .bashrc, or
in /etc/bash/bashrc.
Wonko
