On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Rodrigo Rivas <rodrigorivascosta@xxxxxxxxx>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
