On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:54, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Snip down to my part. [...] >> > >> > And I'll submit that if cups and gutenprint are properly installed >> > and configured it works, and does so without any interference from >> > xprint. I saw it in an htop report one day, got curious and >> > stopped it, also disabling its startup at boot time. That was >> > about a month ago and I've yet to have anything refuse to print or >> > print wrongly in any way. So I've removed one potential source of >> > printing mischief. >> > >> > What exactly WAS it supposed to do anyway? >> > >> > >Regards, >> > > Florian >> > >> > -- >> > Cheers, Gene >> >> Hi, Gene. >> >> I'm the OP on this thread. My complaint is that firefox print window >> always lists five candidate printers, only two of which actually >> work and neither of these is ever the default selection. Every time >> I forget to explicitlys select a printer, I fail to get my printout. >> I find this an annoying waste of time. > >I just removed xprint altogether and its been fine. it looks scary > because apt-get remove xprint wants to remove the meta package > x-windows-system, but that is only a meta-package and does no damage, > AFAICT. > >A There is a cups cli command to set the default printer, something I've not seen in the localhost:631 menu's, as cups supplies cupsified versions of all the usual system tools. Check the docs for I think, lpadmin, which IIRC is how the systemwide default is set. Maybe thats not been done yet?
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