My searches have so-far turned up nothing useful regarding where the default values in the print dialog offered by GTK-based applications (Firefox [when selecting "Print using system print dialog"], Gnumeric, Evince, etc.) come from and how they can be changed or otherwise made to persist.
Chiefly, the default paper size always comes up as "A4", even after previously selecting "US Letter" in a previous use of the print dialog. If I forget to change it, then either the print job is silently discarded, held in the printer's internal queue until A4 paper is loaded, or caused to print from the tray holding "US Legal" size paper--frequently printing only a portion of the original page thereon. "/usr/pkg/etc/papersize" contains: "Letter", as per my setting of "PAPERSIZE" in "/etc/mk.conf". Secondly, although it rightly defaults to "Print to LPR", I want a different "Command Line:" default (current default is 'lpr') since I have to convert (chiefly) Firefox's output from PDF to PostScript and prefer it print duplex. I have local scripts which do this and pass the output to 'lpr' which simply forwards it to my duplex-capable PostScript-speaking printer. I do not use a GTK-based "desktop environment", just Fvwm (2, if it matters). Environment variables like "XDG_foo" do not exist in my setup, so I don't know what those values would be. I do not use CUPS, so nothing related to PPD files has any relevance. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]consolidated[flyspeck]net OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
