[Gllug] Persuading Etch to use the right (configured) paper size

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Thu Aug 3 08:31:53 UTC 2006


On Thu 03 Aug, John Winters wrote:
> 

> 
> I've been doing some further tests and I've eliminated local user
> configuration as the problem.  I can get exactly the same result booting
> a Ubuntu live CD.
> 
> There seems to be something in this generation of Debian/Ubuntu (absent
> in the Sarge generation) which causes it to ignore the configured
> printer paper size.  The hard part is going to be narrowing down exactly
> which package is at fault and thus where to submit the bug report.
> 
> John
> 
   There have been similar complaints that users in the US have had A4
locked in when they need letter or something else. The suggestion is that
not enough questions are being asked for the locale settings if the language
is "English", followed by too many assumptions.

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Chris Bell

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