Locale settings in shell initialization not used by GNOME session
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Settings Daemon |
Unknown
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Medium
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gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome
(Sorry about the package, not sure if this would be gnome-settings-
Originally posted on the forums: http://
I want to manually control my LC_TIME settings independent of my LANG, so I...
1. Added 'export LC_TIME=
2. Start an application from GNOME Terminal or Run (e.g. `zenity --calendar`, `date`): locale setting is used.
3. Start an application from the GNOME Panel, look at the Panel's date applet, etc.: locale setting is not used.
Workaround: append 'LC_TIME=
So it would seem that user-set locale settings are not being picked up by GNOME properly.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with GNOME 2.24 (gnome-
(This is possibly related to bug 68938, but that's old and closed, so I'm creating this new one rather than resurrecting that one.)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
affects: | meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) → gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
confirmed. Came to report it myself and found this.