On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 14:55 +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:27:38AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> >
> > 1) Is Xprt running? "ps aux | grep Xprt"
> > (if not, "/etc/init.d/xprint start" might help)
>
> Mmm I only did an 'apt-get install xprint' but apparently the server
> didn't start after install. Is this the expected behaviour ?
>
> After starting /etc/init.d/xprint start, I open mozilla and go to
> File->Print...
>
> The Print window takes ~5 _real_ minutes to open
Hmm, seems like your local supplier's sold you some second-hand
packages. Take 'em back to the store and demand some new ones.
xprint is supposed to start after install. The print window should not
take that long to open, I'm not sure what's up with it. I suspect this
will be a transitory problem and it will open quickly in the future once
the other problems are ironed out.
> I try to print the current page to /home/eric/mozilla.ps
>
> Now the page is printed to mozilla.ps. I can open mozilla.ps with gv
> and the page is correctly viewed.
OK, because of the other problems you mentioned above and below, it
sounds like you may have printed here using the default mozilla print
driver rather than Xprint. The Xprint printers are the ones with ":64"
at the end. You can confirm by looking inside the file ("less
mozilla.ps"), it will have "%%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript
DDX" written at the top of the file if it's Xprint's.
>
> >
> > 2) Are the printers known by Xprint? "xplsprinters"
> ...
> So I'm missing xprint-utils...
Oops sorry, I keep forgetting I split xplsprinters off to a separate
package.
> $ xplsprinters
> xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec "".
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ echo $XPSERVERLIST
>
> >
> > 3) Does the test program work? "xphelloworld -print <your_printer>"
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ xphelloworld -print DJ100plus
> xphelloworld: no printers found for printer spec "DJ100plus".
>
Ah yes, these problems are all one and the same, I think. As I
mentioned earlier, XPSERVERLIST gets set when you start the X session.
So if you install xprint in the middle of an X session it won't be set
yet, so Xprint clients will not know how to locate the Xprt server and
therefore won't know which printers are available. This is not as
helpful for users as we might like, but I don't immediately see any way
of getting around it.
Now that xprint installed, once you restart X, XPSERVERLIST should get
set and you'll have the printers.
Once you've started X again, let me know then how gv manages with the
postscript file printed from a :64 printer.
Drew
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