gnome default paper size

[Ron Morse]

I have a file named /etc/papersize. It is a simple text file that
contains only the word

letter

I'm on Kubuntu (KDE) though, so I don't know if this will help you. 

Ron Morse

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 23:18 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
> Both gnomeprint (the old way) and gtkprint (the new way, gtk+ >= 2.10  
> and gtkhtml >=3.14, I think) hardcode a default paper size of a4.  
> Those of us stuck in the non metricated hinterlands (North America,  
> mostly US and Canada) would usually prefer the default paper size to  
> be Letter.
> 
> If you have a full gnome setup and know where that default can be  
> defeated, hurray. But I don't really want to carry all of gnome  
> around to use gnucash.
> 
> In the gnomeprint days, the printing dialog contained a Paper tab  
> that allowed the user to select a paper size before printing. It was  
> annoying to have to remember to change the paper size everytime, but  
> at least it could be done.
> 
> The gtkprint dialog has no access to paper size settings. (one  
> solution that gnumeric has used is to add a Page Setup choice to the  
> File menu and storing the paper size in gnumeric's preferences).  
> There is another way to get the default changed. gtkprint uses  
> setlocale() to check the value of the LC_PAPER environmental  
> variable, if it exists. If the system doesn't support that variable,  
> gtkprint checks the value of  LC_MESSAGES. As long as the first  
> variable that exists in that pair returns something that starts with  
> en_US, en_CA, es_PR, or one other Spanish locale that escapes my  
> memory, then gtkprint will default to Letter sized paper.
> 
> So "export LC_MESSAGES = en_US.UTF-8" or similar in your profile will  
> get gtkprint to use Letter instead of a4 paper.
> 
> I have not found a way to get gnomeprint to default to Letter paper.
> 
> Dave
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