From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 18:07:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F6E16A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:07:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (bantam.cisco.com [64.102.19.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A686E43D45 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:07:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k1KI7fl01287; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:07:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from [64.102.192.190] (dhcp-64-102-192-190.cisco.com [64.102.192.190]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k1KI7cm25178; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:07:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43FA0599.9070200@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:08:25 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Jahnke References: <1140450069.29556.34.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1140450069.29556.34.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A4 paper -- how to change?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:07:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank Jahnke wrote: > Over the weekend I changed my printing system from lpd to cups. Most > everything works right: six computers of mixed operating systems can now > print on a remote Ethernet printer. > > My problem is that many Gnome applications (such as Evince, Evolution) > insist on printing on A4 paper, and there is no option to change it to > "letter" in the print dialog boxes as was possible with lpd. The > printer then asks to have A4 paper installed, and does not print the > job, as I have no A4 paper tray nor do I want one. > > I've poked around GConf looking for an appropriate field, and have been > unable to find a default that includes A4. The Gnome cups manager is > set to "letter." Any advice would be most appreciated. The computer > runs 6.0, and Gnome is a recent 2.12 The default paper size looks to be stored in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/libgnomeprint/2.12.1/globals.xml. The Option Id is PhysicalSize. Changing the Default value to USLetter should achieve what you want. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD+gWZb2iPiv4Uz4cRAhRTAJ0f6FFf491vXaGPSscY/oaHAcbXVQCfd/L6 FgEmC3O4MACVNiJHdPQSQlU= =bzi2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----