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Hi!
I'm trying to change the GDM default language to french, but I can't find it (I googled everywhere, I even installed gdm3setup from AUR but there is no options about languages).
I've frequently seen that I should change some lines in /etc/rc.conf to change the language, but this file doesn't exist (anymore?).
Is it at least possible to do this?
Thanks,
Creak
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What's the output of 'localectl'?
rc.conf doesn't exist anymore https://www.archlinux.org/news/final-sy … n-warning/
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It shows Canadian French (what I would like to have actually):
~$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
VC Keymap: cf
X11 Layout: caI also tried this command as root in a virtual term (Ctrl+Alt+2) and it gives the same output.
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What's the output of 'locale -a'?
I know nothing about gnome and gdm, but I found some threads mentioning /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<username> e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1292808
Maybe that's how you control this?
Do you have accountsservice installed?
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Here is the locale -a output. I have both fr_CA and fr_FR (just in case):
~$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
fr_CA.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
POSIXApparently I have accountservice installed, I'll try to change the /var/lib/AccountsService/users/gdm file to see if it works.
BRB
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Woohoo it works!!
In /var/lib/AccountsService/users/gdm, I changed the line:
Language=to:
Language=fr_CA.UTF-8And I rebooted and now it works.
What's strange is that after the reboot, the "Language" line is empty again. But I rebooted again and the language is still french. There is some magic behind this.
I'll update the GDM page.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Configuration
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