easiest way to change my locale?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:04:15AM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 23:34 -0500, H.S. wrote:
> > However, once a user has selected a locale, how
> > does the user then do I just change the time format or any other
> > particular aspect of the locale?
> 
> I think the only way is to set the LC_* variables in $HOME/.profile.

Problem is: .profile is not loaded for the GUI session, so any apps you
launch from the GNOME menus won't see your changes.

For a long time I had a ~/.gnomerc which set a couple of environment
variables.  This one works for all GNOME sessions.  The syntax is the
same as ~/.profile, only be very careful about introducing errors (or
using bashisms), as those will prevent you from logging in.

Marius Gedminas
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