Bug 108673 – startkde does not set $LANG

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Gary Whitehead 2005-10-09 16:33:13 UTC]

Setting the language in the KDE config (i.e. in
$kdehome/share/config/kdeglobals) does not affect $LANG in the X windows
environment.  (Mucks up wine (crossover office), Pan etc - these all benefit
from this environment variable).

My own fix is to add :

export LANG=$(grep Language $kdehome/share/config/kdeglobals | sed 's/Language=//')

in startkde following the determination of the user's kde home directory.

Obviously the update is not dynamic - it only takes effect after logging in, but
better than nothing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set language in KDE control module
2.logout / login
3.

Actual Results:  
$LANG not set, (non KDE) applications that depend on this use default
internationalisation.

Expected Results:  
Set $LANG.  Allows internationalisation for non KDE apps (in my case British...)

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.11.11 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11.11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_GB"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib acl acpi alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga doc dvd eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd f77
fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 java jikes joystick jpeg kde
lcms libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas
ncurses nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam_console pdflib perl plotutils
png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang snmp speex spell
sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode
videos vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-10-10 02:03:18 UTC]

See bug 81965. I also suggest to read 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45256 and to start a discussion with KDE 
developers for a change like this. 
 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81965 ***