Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:09:10 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to use locale(1) to set default paper size? Message-ID: <20191219200910.07007545@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <f1c44cbc-ada9-3cde-a435-7d99935f7862@quip.cz> References: <CALH631kMMK3boE5nndyEnM-_u7nw7%2B05KMiQiEMvcP-0OD9g7w@mail.gmail.com> <f1c44cbc-ada9-3cde-a435-7d99935f7862@quip.cz>
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:53:07 +0100 Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: > Gleb Popov wrote on 2019/12/19 12:07: > > Hello hackers@ > > > > When I launch LibreOffice Writer, the default page size is set to "Letter". > >>From what I read on Internets, the canonical way to set default paper size > > is via locale(1). Many sites propose setting LC_PAPER env var to > > ru_RU.UTF-8 to get "A4" as default size. > > > > On FreeBSD, however, running `locale -ck` doesn't show a category for paper > > size and setting LC_PAPER variable doesn't seem to work for LibreOffice. > > > > Any ideas what can be done about that? > > Take a look at libpaper and papersize-default-a4 > Tha later just create symlink /usr/local/etc/papersize from /usr/local/etc/papersize.a4 > > https://www.freshports.org/print/libpaper/ > https://www.freshports.org/print/papersize-default-a4/ > > I tried it now and it works for me. I also had Letter in LibreOffice. Now I have A4 as default in LibreOffice with this: > > # cat /usr/local/etc/papersize > a4 > > So thank you for your question, it solved my problem too :) > Ah, this is good. I also have a4 set in /usr/local/etc/papersize, so that explains why I always get A4 when I start libreoffice without loading a file. Of course, all you need to do is ``echo a4 > /usr/local/etc/papersize'' -- Gary Jennejohn
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