Looks like this has been known about, but nothing useful done to really fix it, for 10 YEARS now:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147419 ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #147419 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147419 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627648 Title: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Often after upgrading or installing ubuntu (now running 10.04.1) I notice (after a while, since I don't print that often from browser/e-mail client) that the papersize is set to US Letter again. I'm not quite sure why this happen, because I live in the Netherlands, there's no US Letter here, ever (unless you get some special paper sent in ;-) Obviously in a longer running system, this is set in my system to A4 paper (systemsettings/locale/other/paper format). however, I found that in /etc/papersize it said "letter". So I guess there are more places to configure this. (I promptly changed that using "sudo paperconfig -p a4", so perhaps this problem is over now... Perhaps this bug needs to be moved to systemconfiguration/locale with a summary: "systemsettings papersize configuration doesn't cover all places where papersize is configured" or something... Cheers Simon PS, why is there no option to report a bug from http://bugs.launchpad.net, I had to go through the ubuntu-bug tool to get here... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: thunderbird 3.0.6+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Aug 31 22:02:22 2010 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/627648/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
