Change Ubuntu’s default paper size from A4 to Letter
If you’re like me, sitting here in the States on my Ubuntu box, you will quickly grow sick of printers defaulting to A4 paper size.
Here’s a quick way to change that, using nothing more than a terminal session, your keyboard and this howto.
First, let’s get to the terminal session. Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal
Now that you’ve got that open type the following:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1
You should see this screen pop up:
Use your arrow keys to highlight ‘letter’ and hit enter. Give it a minute to think and you should be all set.
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