Hello,

I'm currently running RHEL 3.0. When I start the machine it boots to an X login screen at which I login into Gnome as a non root user. I then launch a gnome-termnal. In this terminal 'echo $LANG' yields en_US.UTF-8. I'd like this value to autmatically be set to just en_US. I can't figure out though where to specify this. I've tried adding 'export LANG=en_US' to both /etc/profile and the users .bash_profile but neither had any affect. Is there some kind of X startup file I can add commands to? I'm a little confused about the interaction between X and bash I guess. Thanks in advance!

-exits

I'd suggest helping yourself by using
grep in /etc ... and setting it globally...

grep -R LANG /etc/*


Cheers,
Tink

The thing with /etc/profile is that it's only used by bash when it's a login shell, which is not what happens by default when you open your xterm (or gnome-term). /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc are usually used for a non-login shell.

You could use an xsession script to start Gnome and set it there. Create the file ~/.xsession and add the this:Set your session type to "Custom session" in GDM (if that's what you use) and you should log in to a Gnome desktop with en_US as the language. Since $LANG will be inherited by gnome-session and we set it before we launch the session manager your entire environment should be en_US.


Håkan

If you follow hw-tph's excellent advice, you could also go the whole hog and replace the LANG= line with so your X session has your entire normal environment - then you'd only need to edit /etc/profile in future.