Locale and KEYBOARDTYPE

robinhood1995 · 05-04-2007, 02:02 PM

Hi All,

I would liek to know if anyone has a good what to do the following.

If a server is in the middle of europe and there was seven different languages around it.

What would be the best way to setup each user from the different language to have their own local settings for language, keyboardtype, keytable and ect...

I thinking of prompting the the user everytime for which one to use but I think that is a bit overkill.

Any ideas?

b0uncer · 05-05-2007, 06:55 AM

I might think of adding the locale etc. settings to the users' profile files. The problem is that for a shell there's it's own profile file, which doesn't get read if the users log in using some graphical login manager (for example use KDM to jump into KDE directly without logging in to some shell first). But still it might be easier than annoying the users all the time asking for what language they want to use

robinhood1995 · 05-05-2007, 10:58 AM

What do you think if all the users never see the graphical side of linux as all our servers are texted based?