Printing fails because LC_PAPER locale is ignored

[Tero Karvinen]

Gqview does not take paper from LC_PAPER locale, but instead defaults to US Letter. In countries not using US Letter (all but 4 countries in the world) this often results in failed printing. Can be bypassed by setting the paper (again) manually in gqview.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Confirmed on current dapper.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Could you please file a bug report in the upstream gqview bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4050&atid=104050.
Please also add a bug watch here.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

I have forwarded this bug upstream (see bug watch above).

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

Javier: The bug is still open upstream, how could it be working in 8.10? Did you release a fix for just Ubuntu?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

(setting importance due to extant workaround)

Could someone test this symptom in 8.10 and/or 9.04?

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

This is still a problem with gqview 2.0.4-5 in jaunty.
It only happens the first time you print from gqview, since it saves the printing settings once you changed it to A4.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

gqview has been replaced by geeqie in lucid
geeqie still defaults to Letter, low since if you change to A4 once the printing settings are saved.

[Colin Clark (colinclark)]

No longer applicable, because the GTK print dialogue is used