List of / Documentation for mousepadrc

Submitted by hyp..@...co.uk

Assigned to Matthew Brush @matt

Link to original bug (#14235)

Description

I have some stuff in my mousepadrc since I created the file to set the font sizes for printing. I can't figure out how to set the default paper to A4. It would be useful to have a wiki with a list of all the possible configuration options somewhere online to refer to. Wasn't sure how to raise this as an issue so I've added it as a bug here although it probably isn't quite the right place.

Version: Unspecified

Matthew Brush @matt said:

What version of Mousepad are you using?

I don't have a printer here, but Mousepad just uses standard Gtk+ printing so it may be that there is some non-app-specific info out on the web about configuring that (or maybe it's left entirely to the application?).

Matthew Brush @matt said:

Apparently you can set the LC_PAPER environment variable to the locale with your desired paper default, for example if I run:

$ LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" mousepad

Then the print dialog defaults to A4 instead of my native locale's Letter default. Presumably you can set this variable in ~/.profile for your user or /etc/environment for all users.

Theo Linkspfeifer said:

Adding the following lines to mousepadrc seems to work:

[Print Settings] page-setup-saved=true paper-format=iso_a4

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkPaperSize.html#GtkPaperSize-struct

Proper formatting:

[Print Settings]
page-setup-saved=true
paper-format=iso_a4

assigned to @kevinbowen and unassigned @matt

@kevinbowen Maybe we could give @Tamaranch permissions to edit the Xfce wiki so that he can add information and keep things up-to-date.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/start

Yes, I had thought of that too. There are some things to update and I think it would be nice to say a word about GSettings in general, and the hidden preferences it contains (or will soon contain) in particular.

Sure, I'd be glad to do that. Just let me know which email address you want associated with the account and I will get it set up for you.

If you could use my Xfce alias that I used in this announce it would be great, thanks!

I've created two accounts for you. One for wiki.x.o and one for docs.x.o You should receive email notifications to log in and create your passwords. Feel free to ping me on email/IRC if you have any questions. Enjoy. ;-)

Thanks Kevin! I accessed my accounts and changed my passwords, now it's just a matter of getting started!

I updated the documentation, with a small section about settings in general, and print settings in particular. But I don't think we should give a list of all possible print settings as requested here. Instead, the idea seems to be to use the print dialog and let Mousepad fill in the configuration file, just making sure to let PageSetupSaved at true so that all settings are properly reloaded next time. (I don't know this part of the code well though, and I never use printing with Mousepad.)

Nicely done!

I suggest to mention Dconf Editor also and maybe turn the part about printing into its own (sub)section or make it more prominent by highlighting the word "printing".

Done!

closed

marked this issue as related to #90 (closed)

marked this issue as related to #148 (closed)

assigned to @Tamaranch and unassigned @kevinbowen

changed milestone to %0.5.1