Gnome 3 ignoring my locales

Gnome 3 (or gdm)
a) stopped reading my .xprofile which is annoying as hell
b) started ignoring the time-format and other stuff I set through my locales. What a cunt.
More annoyingly, thunderbird uses the right date format when started through a terminal, but the wrong one when started via gnome. I so want to throw a brick through my screen right now. I already spent some time trying to fix this with no luck so far, so any help is appreciated. $ locale obviously gives the right list of locales. Fuck me...
Mods, feel free to censor the no-no words out of my post.

Update:
When I'm at the login screen (gdm) I can lock and unlock my touchpad because everithing has been started. After that, when login is complete, I can't toogle it.
So, gnome blocks something and the only thing I can do is manually restart acpi daemon. I also tried with a script (after editing sudoers file for getting acpi daemon's control without being super user, but didn't work).

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