On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:33:28PM -0700, Chris Bennett wrote:
| > Seems like a FAQ, though I didn't find it. I've noticed that in
| > applications such as Firefox, LibreOffice, etc. the spell checking uses
| > British English spelling. Also printing defaults to A4 instead of
| > US-Letter paper size.
| >
| > I select us.swapctrlcaps keyboard when installing, and
| > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8.
| >
| > Is this something I just need to change per application, or is there
| > another system-wide way to indicate I want American defaults?
| >
| > Allan
| >
|
| /etc/papersize
| read man papersize
| it defaults to A4
That's not what papersize(5) tells me on my system:
If the papersize file does not exist, programs using
the paper library default to using letter as a fall-
back value
(I was unaware of papersize(5), so I looked it up .. apparently it's
from libpaper which is a dependency of several other packages)
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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