How to use locale(1) to set default paper size?

[Gleb Popov]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:53 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at 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
>

That indeed works, awesome!


> So thank you for your question, it solved my problem too :)
>
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman
>