Re: KDE3.3 & kdmrc/dmrc language settings

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:13:55AM -0500, ashis.v.purbhoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In testing the ~/.dmrc file does seem to effect KDE because the language on
> of messages changed based on what was set in the ~/.dmrc file.
> 
not if you use upstream kdm ...
gdm can set the language and stores the setting in .dmrc.
dunno what distributor patches to that effect exist for kdm.

> How does the language settings differ from user vs. system in addition
> to state vs. stateless?
> 
you lost me here. need more context info to understand the question.

> Within kdmrc:
>       Session=/usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession
>       ../kdm/Xsession  executes /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
>       ../xdm/Xsession sources /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
>       ../xinitrc-common sources /etc/profile.d/lang.sh & all *.sh in
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d
>       ../lang.sh source /etc/sysconfig/i18n $HOME/.i18n
> 
> It seems like ultimately the i18n file is the true source of the language
> settings?
> 
yes. well, at least if your kde setup uses the environment settings
somehow - afaik, upstream kde 3 does not (it uses only KDE_LANG, but
usually nobody sets it).

> I'm lost here, how does this affect the system vs. a the user base?
>
still not sure what you mean. :}
let's try that interpretation:
anything kdm sets is for the session only.
"system" settings (in my book, anything set before kdm starts) have any
chance to affect the user session only if the variable is added to the
ExportList option in kdmrc.

> Does is make sense to set the KDE language based on the keyboard?
> 
one could consider an automaton that asks whether to change the layout
when the language changes. definitely not the other way round.

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