Change GDM language in Gnome3 and add a Second Language to the List

aliasbody · 2011-12-02 17:16:40

Hello Everyone,

I have always used this order in my language list in Gnome or KDE : Portuguese, French, English.

But since the update of Gnome 3.2.1, I have problems defining the language, on my locale.gen I got only those 3 languages activated. But my Gnome3 Language List show me this :

Chinese
Espanish
English
English UK
Portuguese

With no chances of adding french (or it will replace the portuguese language and my system will be in French), If I remove the Portuguese language from the gnome list, then my system will be in chinese, english etc...

Even GDM have the same error, the problem is, GDM only show me the English language with no chances to change it..

How can I change this ?

Thank in Advance,
Luis Da Costa

sirocco · 2011-12-03 13:15:17

If gdm is started as daemon, try
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes" in rc.conf

aliasbody · 2011-12-03 16:10:49

Thank you it works ^^

PS Just one question, In the /etc/locale.conf do I have to just put
LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8

Or do I also have to put th all others that appears when I right locale in the terminal :
LANG=pt_PT.utf8
LC_CTYPE="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_TIME="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_PAPER="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_NAME="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pt_PT.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Thanks in Advance

Creak · 2013-11-02 17:19:15

It's a late answer, but you can put quite whatever you want in /etc/locale.conf, depending on your needs.
As you can see here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ide_locale, you can only set LANG and the other LC_* variables will be set based on this. But you can also tweak a little bit the LC_* variables if you know what you're doing.

Set [SOLVED] if your problem is fixed

Creak · 2013-11-02 17:42:05

BTW, the tips given here doesn't works anymore. I created another thread here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=172293 just for the GDM language.

karol · 2013-11-02 17:44:46

Creak, please don't bump old threads.
This one was opened before systemd transition. It mentions old configuration options in now-gone rc.conf https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1024274

Creak · 2013-11-02 17:48:19

That's what I discovered... too late... sorry.

jasonwryan · 2013-11-02 17:49:31

Closing.

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#1 2011-12-02 17:16:40

Change GDM language in Gnome3 and add a Second Language to the List

#2 2011-12-03 13:15:17

Re: Change GDM language in Gnome3 and add a Second Language to the List

#3 2011-12-03 16:10:49

Re: Change GDM language in Gnome3 and add a Second Language to the List

#4 2013-11-02 17:19:15

Re: Change GDM language in Gnome3 and add a Second Language to the List

#5 2013-11-02 17:42:05

Re: Change GDM language in Gnome3 and add a Second Language to the List

#6 2013-11-02 17:44:46

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#7 2013-11-02 17:48:19

Re: Change GDM language in Gnome3 and add a Second Language to the List

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