[Mageia-dev] issue with accentuated letters with gnome: gdb vs gnome vs locale-br

Fri Mar 15 10:44:50 CET 2013

Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> On 7 March 2013 07:00, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> For some time, I've issues with typing accentued letter within gnome
+>> with br_FR locale (breton language).
+>> I tried altered the LC_CTYPE content by replacing
+>>     copy "en_DK"
+>> by:
+>>     copy"fr_FR"
+>>
+>> But that doesn't fix it (and anyway that's the value since a decade).
+>>
+>> I noted that gnome doesn't set $LC_CTYPE
+>> When tested, both "LC_CTYPE=fr_FR gedit" and "LC_CTYPE=br_FR gedit"
+>> allows me to type accentuated letters such as "é".
+>>
+>> Also running "startx startgnomeclassic -- :1" from a tty works fine.
+>>
+>> The difference is that in that case, the shell has read ~/.i18n and set
+>> LC_CTYPE accordingly.
+>>
+>> It looks like the issue may be when gnome is run from gdm.
+>>
+>> Does that ring any bell to anyone?
+>
+> Anyone?
+> I'll upload rpmdrake with global progress bar if someone finds out the
+> issue with gnome!
+>
+
+sounds similar to the issues I have with gnome-classic often (but not 
+always) loosing the settings on my account (but not on root) when I log 
+out or reboot.
+I have found that if right after I reconfigure the settings, I then exit 
+the application (like nautilus) and re-enter, the settings are retained 
+until reboot instead of being lost right away if I do something else in 
+the application (like access another directory in nautilus).
+
+For settings like the themes, I found that logging out and back in right 
+after restoring them in gnome-tweak-tool usually keeps them after reboot 
+(they were always lost before I did this).
+Sometimes they are still reset to the default.  I've noticed this before 
+reboot at least once, but my theme configuration was still being 
+respected in all my open windows.  But not after reboot.
+
+Strangely, root, which I access via gnome-terminal (generally via the 
+"terminal adminstateur" option in menu), has never lost settings (to my 
+knowledge).
+
+It is as though settings are not saved right away in applications like 
+nautilus, and not always being read properly on boot/login.
+By any chance, could the boot part be related to systemd ?
+(On my system, systemd often has time-out on cold boot, on mga2 fully up 
+to date.)
+
+Hopefully all this gives you some clues ... :)
+
+BTW, the global progress bar would be nice.
+
+-- 
+André
+