[lug] default paper size in gedit

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Mon Jun 23 21:43:45 MDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 23:00, Nick Golder wrote:
> On 03-06-23 20:22 -0600, hugh at math.byu.edu wrote:
> > Is there a nice way (i.e. not recompiling) to set the default paper size
> > for gedit to US letter instead of A4?
> > 
> > This is for a stock install of a redhat 8 machine.
> > 
> > Hugh
> 
> Wouldn't this be a global variable set by papersize(5)?  Give that a
> shot first.  Mes thinks that a better solution.  Not sure what it is on
> a RedHat system but my little piece of Debian is looking in
> /etc/papersize.


no /etc/papersize here.  The closest I get is /etc/paper.config which
seems to list a variety of paper sizes and removing the non-US paper
definitions does nothing to limit the paper type available in gedit.

Hugh




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