set environment language at login screen
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Wed Jun 30 19:20:42 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 19:40 +0100, Shashank Sharma wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using FC2. I have a graphical login set up and so
> I can choose the environment language from the login
> screen by clicking on the Language tab at the bottom
> left.
>
> By language for environment I mean that I get the
> desktop icons and the panel all in my selected
> language.
>
> My query is, how to choose language if login is set
> for init 3. I mean, how would I choose a language for
> my session if I don't have a graphical login screen.
Believe the LANG environment variable will do it. See what
"env | grep LANG" shows with the desired language environment active,
and then "export LANG=<setting>" in runlevel 3.
Phil
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