On Tuesday 07 March 2006 17:30, Tim wrote: > >> And is there a way to pick a Locale from inside Gnome? Nup. You've got > >> to do that before you log in from the GDM screen. Not very good design. > > > > Blame Gnome for that. KDE manages it. > > Fair enough, I will. But I can't see anything that explains how to set > it via CLI, either. You've got to know which particular file inside > the /etc structure to hand-modify from other sources of information. > > It's such a basic thing, but so seriously overlooked by the > distribution. > Tim, you're not listening. It's not the distribution, it's the dm that isn't handling the possibility of changing. You could be right about the starting point in installation, but since few of us try them all it's difficult to know. All I can say is that I have done four installs in the last few weeks, using two different starting points, and have seen the locale, time-zone and keyboard options every time. Anne
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