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--- Comment #18 from JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-10-31 07:51:43 MDT ---
(In reply to comment #12 from Mike Fabian)
> JP> If the user selects a language in gdm different than the default,
> JP> they have made a more immediate choice than ~/.profile.
>
> OK, I see your point.
>
> So if gdm sets LANG (by the way, does it set LANG or GDM_LANG?)
> we could detect that it is already set in xim, couldn’t we?

It sets LANG and GDM_LANG, but more importantly in passes GDM_LANG as the
second variable to Xsession - which explicitly sets LANG.  Werner is listed as
the author of this script.  The comment is "Handle arguments given by
xdm/kdm/gdm".

> I.e. in "adduserenv" in /etc/X11/xim set only these variables which
> are not already set. If they are already set for whatever reason,
> don’t overwrite the but use them as they are.

It will be set no matter what I think, because Xsession is executed in a shell.
 adduserenv runs a bash login shell, which resets LANG to default and that
value is used to replace LANG in the env (because LANG *might* have changed due
to ~/.profile, but not usually).

> Would that be OK?
>
> (If gdm sets GDM_LANG and not LANG, we might need to copy the value of
> GDM_LANG into LANG).

The Xsession script essentially does this, since $GDM_LANG is passed to it as
the second variable.


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