X environment

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/28/06, Edscott Wilson Garcia <edscott at xfce.org> wrote:
> Simple solution:
>
> Create a script (xfdesktop.ja) for your japanese user:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8' xfdesktop&
>
> have this executed this instead of xfdesktop.

Am I the only one who's not had a problem setting an LC_* setting in
my bash settings?  I checked and I've had 'export
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"' in my ~/.bashrc for months and it's been
working (both in GNOME and Xfce).  And yes, I am using GDM to login.

Again, I wonder about the single quotes....


> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Jan wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm using Gentoo with Xfce as desktop (with GDM for login).
> > In file /etc/profile.env I have line:
> > export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
> >
> > However for certain user I want LC_COLLATE to be
> > LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8', therefore I set it in
> > ~user/.bashrc
> >
> > The problem is that in xterm I get it set properly however when running
> > (for example evolution mail client) from xfce menu
> > LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8' is apparently ignored. (Addresses in evolution
> > are not sorted properly).
> >
> > Why is my bash environment and X environmet different ?

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