On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Rodrigo Rivas <rodrigorivascosta@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello, list!
After the recent upgrade to GNOME 3.6 I've been having weird characters in the gnome-terminal. For example, if I run "pstree" the tree lines are all changed into ????.
After some debugging I traced the problem to a bogus GDM_LANG value (en_GB.utf8) passed to the session launcher by GDM. The curious thing is that the GDM greeter doesn't show any control to choose the language... it's making it up! That locale doesn't even exist in my machine.
Now, I can change the LANG variable back to a sane value in a "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/01-fix-language" script, but that is just a hack.
So, two questions remains:
1. Doesn't the GDM greeter have a language chooser any more? 2. From where is GDM reading the GDM_LANG value?
Well, about (2), GDM documentation says that the last LANGuage selected is saved in $HOME/.dmrc. That used to be the case but it is no longer true. Now it uses something named AccountService, which is a shiny dbus service to get/set that kind of information. The data is saved in /var/lib/AccountService/users/.$USER. I removed the line from that file, or alternatively: # sudo dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts --print-reply /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User$UID org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetLanguage string: And solved. Question (1) remains, still. Regards. -- Rodrigo