On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:36, Damjan
The symptoms do not seem like a keyboard layout problem (which would affect everything in X) or a font problem.
Also, the font and layout settings in rc.conf (or /etc/vconsole.conf) have NO effect for X.
What this looks like is the setup of the locale, either in the shell or the terminal (they are different programs and the locale can be different).
To check this, first run these 2 commands:
$ locale $ env | egrep 'LC_|LANG'
it will tell you the state of the shell
second, run:
$ xargs -0 -n1 < /proc/-the-pid-of-the-terminal-/environ | \ egrep 'LC_|LANG'
it will tell you what the terminal thinks the locale is.
My guess is that the terminal will not have the proper locale, and unfortunately it's not very clear how the environment of the X session is set. Especially since different login managers have different scripts to start the session.
I set the locale in my ~/.xprofile - which by most long standing conventions should working all login managers. Alas, I can't guarantee it (damn non-standard session scripts).
Spot on! As you can see in an email from me yesterday :) I even solved it in the way you suggest, by setting the locale in ~/.xprofile :) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus