PAPERCONFIG(8)

✨ PAPERCONFIG(8) ✨

manual page for paperconfig, the system manual section 8 (System Manager's Manual) 💅

💖 NAME 💖

okay so paperconfig is the tool that lets you configure the system default paper size 📄✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

paperconfig [--version|--help|--paper papername|--choose]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so paperconfig checks what the current paper size is, and then sets the system default paper that tools using the papersize file will use 🫶 you can either let it ask you interactively which paper you want, or call it from scripts with no questions asked, which is so efficient 🔥

when the paper size gets changed, paperconfig lets other packages know by running the scripts in the /etc/libpaper.d directory 🧚 it's giving group chat update energy 💬

and if you don't specify a paper at all? it just prints the current system paper size. no drama 🙈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -v, --version — prints the version of paperconfig and then exits 🏷️
• -h, --help — prints help about how to use it and then exits 🆘
• -p, --paper papername: uses papername if it's a valid option 💜 if it's not a valid paper, you'll get an error message and it exits. so rude, but fair 😭
• -c, --choose — lets you pick the system paper interactively, main character style ✨

🧚 FILES 🧚

• /etc/libpaper.d — this is the directory of scripts that run after the paper size has been changed 🍓 this package doesn't put any scripts in here itself, but other packages totally might. run-parts is what runs the scripts, so their names have to follow run-part's naming requirements, no exceptions 🙅‍♀️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• paper(1)
• runparts(8)

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that's the tea, bestie 💅 PAPERCONFIG(8) last updated 10 April 2021, and the manual page itself is shouting out every single one of its own details 💖