Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 21 July 2008 07:05, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is because Hebrew is RTL and it is confusing when combined with LTR; not to mention that the console doesn't even print RTL correctly, but in reverse! (where do I

Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Shachar Or
Hello! How do I set the locale for a user to something other than the one set by debconf in the locales package? This should be the user's default in X sessions. I was told that gdm has a feature for this but I'm using kdm. Cheers! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
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Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:55, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Hello! =20 How do I set the locale for a user to something other than the one set = by=20 debconf in the locales package? =20 This should be the user's default in X sessions. =20 I was told that gdm has a feature for this but

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:55, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: export LC_ALL=3Dlocale in ~/.Xinitrc ? When I open up a terminal as that user and type 'echo $L' and press tab i can see that there's no such variable. I've tried to set the $LANG variable via this file and it didn't change it also. I

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Thilo Six
Shachar Or wrote the following on 20.07.2008 17:47 Hello! How do I set the locale for a user to something other than the one set by debconf in the locales package? This should be the user's default in X sessions. I was told that gdm has a feature for this but I'm using kdm. Cheers!

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:55, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: export LC_ALL=3Dlocale in ~/.Xinitrc ? When I open up a terminal as that user and type 'echo $L' and press tab i can see that there's no such variable. I've tried to

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Shachar Or
Hi! Using etch. Using kdm. I've found that I can put stuff in ~/.xsession. I put 'export LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8' there. That made the xserver start and quit, putting me back in kdm. I assume that this is because X didn't start any process and it decides to die thus. I assume that this is

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 19:33:30 +0300, Shachar Or ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:55, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Hello! =20 How do I set the locale for a user to something other than the one set = by=20 debconf in the locales package? =20 This should

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Thilo Six
Shachar Or wrote the following on 20.07.2008 21:02 Hi! Using etch. Using kdm. I've found that I can put stuff in ~/.xsession. I put 'export LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8' there. That made the xserver start and quit, putting me back in kdm. in kde you can use a shell script like (chmod 700):

Re: Changing locale for X session

2008-07-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is because Hebrew is RTL and it is confusing when combined with LTR; not to mention that the console doesn't even print RTL correctly, but in reverse! (where do I file a bug for this?) I think RTL support on the console

Changing locale

2006-02-22 Thread Masatran (Deepak), R.
I am changing my locale to ta_IN. I have export LANG='ta_IN' in my .bashrc, '. $HOME/.bashrc' in my .bash_profile, and '. $HOME/.bash_profile' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using Default System Session. 1. But for example, in Gnome - Applications-menu - Games - Ataxx, Ataxx is displayed in

Re: Changing locale

2006-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: I am changing my locale to ta_IN. I have export LANG='ta_IN' in my .bashrc, '. $HOME/.bashrc' in my .bash_profile, and '. $HOME/.bash_profile' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using Default System Session. those settings only affects

Re: Changing locale

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:42:47PM +0530, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: I am changing my locale to ta_IN. I have export LANG='ta_IN' in my .bashrc, '. $HOME/.bashrc' in my .bash_profile, and '. $HOME/.bash_profile' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using Default System Session. 1. But for

Re: Changing locale

2006-02-22 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 09:12 schrieb Masatran (Deepak), R.: I am changing my locale to ta_IN. I have export LANG='ta_IN' in my .bashrc, '. $HOME/.bashrc' in my .bash_profile, and '. $HOME/.bash_profile' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using Default System Session. 1. But for example, in

Re: Changing locale [solved]

2006-02-22 Thread Masatran (Deepak), R.
* Masatran (Deepak), R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-02-22 I am changing my locale to ta_IN. I have export LANG='ta_IN' in my .bashrc, '. $HOME/.bashrc' in my .bash_profile, and '. $HOME/.bash_profile' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using Default System Session. 1. But for example, in Gnome -

tiny font in some apps after changing locale - what to do?

2005-09-05 Thread Dom
Hello people, Few days ago I changed my locale to hr_HR.iso88592 with dpkg-reconfigure locales. It was English before and I need it Croatian now. Since then I installed some new packages including Gnome Disk Catalog (gtktalog), gnome-pim and sanduhr. Now, in these applications' GUIs I get

Changing locale

2003-07-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
Selecting a default locale with dpkg-reconfigure does not make that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the system without rebooting? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL

Re: Changing locale

2003-07-18 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:51:19AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Selecting a default locale with dpkg-reconfigure does not make that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the system without rebooting? What does effective mean to you? Should the prompts change language,

Re: Changing locale

2003-07-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bob Hilliard wrote: Selecting a default locale with dpkg-reconfigure does not make that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the system without rebooting? You can check if your settings were saved by editing /etc/environment. Please don't forget to

Re: Changing locale

2003-07-18 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
To understand what was going wrong I decided to check and see if I could edit my locales with the new installation that I'm running. sudo apt-get install locales add: fr_CA (and about 6 others) locales say they are added in the dpkg-reconfigure screens sudo locale-gen gives the

Re: Changing locale

2003-07-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Bob Hilliard wrote: Selecting a default locale with dpkg-reconfigure does not make that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the system without rebooting? You can check if your settings were saved by editing

Re: Changing locale

2003-07-18 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:23:58PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: I would also like to know how to generate and set the `POSIX' locale. Although /usr/share/i18n/locales/POSIX exists, `dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not offer it as a choice, and if it is manually added to /etc/locale.gen, a

Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?

2003-03-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
of anything. Could someone please point me to a faq or HOWTO that tells what packages need to be installed and a step-by-step procedure for changing locale? TIA for any info and RTFM's you can provide. For basic FAQ on Debian http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ For basic FAQ

Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?

2003-03-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
of anything. Could someone please point me to a faq or HOWTO that tells what packages need to be installed and a step-by-step procedure for changing locale? TIA for any info and RTFM's you can provide. I don't have any FAQ pointers, but have you tried setting LC_ALL=en_US ? I apologise

Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?

2003-03-22 Thread Blake Covarrubias
. Could someone please point me to a faq or HOWTO that tells what packages need to be installed and a step-by-step procedure for changing locale? TIA for any info and RTFM's you can provide. Peter __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS

Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?

2003-03-22 Thread Barak Korren
seem to do much of anything. Could someone please point me to a faq or HOWTO that tells what packages need to be installed and a step-by-step procedure for changing locale? TIA for any info and RTFM's you can provide. I don't have any FAQ pointers, but have you tried setting LC_ALL=en_US ? I

Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?

2003-03-22 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: I need to change my locale from LANG=C to LANG=en_US on debian-390 (woody-3.0r1), running under hercules 390 emulator. Just changing the value of LANG does not seem to do what I expect. In fact, it doesn't seem to do much of