Bug 86752

Summary:	KDE should set locale environment for non-kde apps
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	alancio <lameventanas>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description alancio 2004-08-07 15:02:42 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

KDE should set the locale environment for non-kde applications.
For example, if I have my language set to spanish in KDE, and every kde app shows up in spanish.  But when I launch gaim, xchat or any non-kde app they show in english.

And yes, I know that I can fix it in my .xinitrc, but my mom doesn't.

Comment 1 Tobias Rupf 2004-08-13 19:37:28 UTC

YYes, I have the same kind of problem, a little more explanations: If I log in with kdm than the LANG variable is set to "POSIX" for applications. If I start an application like GIMP than it will show up in English. But if I open a terminal first (i.e. konsole) the LANG variabele will be set correctly to "de_DE@euro" and if I start gimp from the command line there it shows up in German. The LANG variable is also set correctly if I don't use kdm for login, but a plain text terminal session and start KDE after login with startx.

I'm not sure if that is a problem of kdm or of the Debian scripts/configuration.

Comment 2 András Manţia 2006-03-02 23:35:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82009 ***