On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:27:13PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> It seems that /etc/locale.conf is ignored in Centos 7.
>
> So, /etc/locale.conf isn't totally ignored. Perhaps xterm, or Xfce4,
> or that whatever it is awful undocumented GUI thing that starts X,
> has simply forgotten the concept of "export".
Well, I have isolated the problem to that "awful undocumented GUI thing
that starts X" - namely, gdm!
I first switched to multi-user.target, which provides the old familiar
UNIXy login: and ran 'startxfce4'. The `env` contained both
LC_COLLATE=C and LC_TIME=C.
Then I switched back to graphical.target, but also did
yum install lightdm, systemctl disable gdm, systemctl enable lightdm,
and after rebooting with a graphical login, found that my two
environment variables were present in the enviroment.
So gdm, once again, demonstrates a flagrant disregard of longstanding
standards and conventions. Ugh!
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David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
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