gnome default paper size

[David Reiser]

I tried that fix, too, but my system (mac os x) isn't paying attention.

The gtk+ lead developer filed a bug whose solution will probably be  
better: that gtk+ ought to honor the contents of .lpoptions. Even  
though nothing has happened on the bug yet, at least someone with  
some power is interested in having gtk's behavior change.

Dave
On 17 Aug 2007, at 12:16:11 AM, Ron Morse wrote:

> 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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