James Wilde wrote:
On Feb 22, 2010, at 17:39 , William Case wrote:
Hi;
I am responding to my own post in the hope of getting some guru's
attention. The following is an issue I would really like to solve.
There must be a configuration file or something that I can't find. Any
pointers would be greatly appreciated.
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 11:53 -0500, William Case wrote:
Hi;
I want to fix (as in 'make permanent') page size and window size in OOo
for Writer and others.
Page size: The default image of a page on my 22" LCD screen within OOo
window frame is smaller than a real page. Currently I have it zoomed
through the 'Zoom & View Layout' dialogue by 105.5% to get the actual
width of a 8½ inch sheet of real paper. I would like to make this
105.5% the new default 100% so that I can easily zoom sizes up and down
from there.
Window size: How can I change the opening window size, to accommodate a
new slightly larger default page width. I am used to using --geometry X
x Y, for example, on Xwindow systems but can't find the equivalent
command flag on OOo. I would also like to make this new window size
permanent (i.e. default).
Hi William. I don't have a solution, but maybe an idea which might put you on
the right road.
If you fix the second, I wonder if the first won't fix itself, that is, given a
larger window of fixed size, maybe OOo will display the document larger to
effectively use the space available.
And regarding the second, I wonder if the size of an application's window might
not be configured in Gnome (or KDE if you use that) rather than in OOo itself.
I've had a quick look around in Ubuntu, and it seems there is a file under
/etc/gconf/schemas which might be what you are looking for. Unfortunately it's
not on my instance of Ubuntu, which presumably means that it is not something
which is automatically installed. Or there might be other Ubuntu or Fedora
users in here who can offer more help. Or you might try the Fedora or RedHat
forum for help.
//J
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In Windows the window size a program uses is remembered when the program
is closed. So, if you open Writer, change the size of its window and
then close it, the next time you open it that changed window size will
be reinstated. This is supposed to work for "well behaved" programs. It
seems to work for OOo. At least it does for OOo 3.1.1 on Vista Home
Premium and on XP Pro. I have to assume it's true in other OSs' window
managers such as KDE or Gnome.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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