Hi,
I was trying have GNOME use a different language than English using the
method described in the page http://www.gnome.org/i18n/ under the
section "To enable support for your language, you need to add this to
/~/.profile/:" and it didn't work.
It seems that when the GNOME session is started that the file ~/.profile
is not read. I am currently using GNOME 2.12.0, my shell is tcsh and my
linux distribution is Ubuntu Breezy.
GNOME doesn't seem to start a login before starting the session, so the
modifications to the file ~/.profile seem useless. Specially under tcsh
since the shell doesn't even load the ~/.profile. I took a look at the
xsession start up scripts found under /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ and all the
startup scripts are written in sh and I noticed that the startup scripts
load the file ~/.gnomerc if it exists. If the environment variables that
control the locale are inserted in that file the GNOME session will
respect the locale change. Because the file ~/.gnomerc is sourced by the
xsession startup scripts, which are written in sh, the format of this
file must also be in sh no matter the shell that's used by the end user.
Emmanuel Rodriguez
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