Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Hello list, I've just installed the beta in a VM so as to evaluate GNOME 3.4 (and Fedora-17 as well). Two irritating issues have emerged that would be show stoppers, if incapable of resolution. They are: 1. I choose United Kingdom (English) for the obvious reason - I live here - and I

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On 20/04/12 17:27, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: a little help would be appreciated. Here you go: Correct List for test-builds: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/ -- Regards, Frank Jack of all, fubars -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Patrick Lists
On 04/20/2012 06:27 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: 2.I installed an HP printer via the Printers dialogue and I cannot find any way to set paper sizes to A4. Try running system-config-printer Regards, Patrick -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:27:36 +0100 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: 2.I installed an HP printer via the Printers dialogue and I cannot find any way to set paper sizes to A4. The weird thing is in the US, I constantly run into printers all defaulting to A4 when I want US-Letter. I think there must

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:27:36 +0100 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: 2.I installed an HP printer via the Printers dialogue and I cannot find any way to set paper sizes to A4. The weird thing is in the US, I constantly run into printers all defaulting to A4

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:09:42 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Will that necessarily work? It seems to me that you could have a situation in which libreoffice believes in A4, but the printer still believes in Letter. True, you have to get everyone on the same page (groan :-). You may need

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 20/04/12 17:31, Patrick Lists wrote: On 04/20/2012 06:27 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: 2.I installed an HP printer via the Printers dialogue and I cannot find any way to set paper sizes to A4. Try running system-config-printer Regards, Patrick I'll give it a go. Thanks. Peter HB --

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/20/2012 10:51 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I take it from your response that you think the issue is specific to a test build and not generic? It's quite possible that it is because if it were, as you phrase it, generic, it probably would have been reported long ago and fixed. And,

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 12:09 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: It seems to me that you could have a situation in which libreoffice believes in A4, but the printer still believes in Letter. When I had application/printer mismatch problems, it was usually because the application believed in A4

Re: Fedora-17 Irritations

2012-04-20 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 20/04/12 19:01, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/20/2012 10:51 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I take it from your response that you think the issue is specific to a test build and not generic? It's quite possible that it is because if it were, as you phrase it, generic, it probably would have been