On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:02, Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> >Paul E Condon wrote: > >> >> Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below. > >> > > >> >[...] > >> > > >> >>>The mozilla-xprint behavior is mostly controlled by the settings > >> >>> in /etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters. > >> >> > >> >> On my machine the above named file exists and contains the lines > >> >> referred to below. But it also contains the following comments: > >> >> > >> >> <quote> > >> >> # X*printers sample configuration file > >> >> # > >> >> # > >> >> # This file belongs in /usr/lib/X11/X*printers, where the "*" is > >> >> the # display number of the server. For example, if the server > >> >> is # invoked using the command X :0, then the X0printers file is > >> >> used. > >> >> ################################################################# > >> >>### #### </quote> > >> >> > >> >> When I make changes to this file and restart my X system, I see > >> >> no change in behavior. Perhaps I need to make a copy per this > >> >> comment. But this seems to me to violate Debian policy, so I > >> >> wonder if there is not something else that should be done > >> >> instead. > >> > > >> >Just to make sure what you mean by "restarting your X system": You > >> > have to explicitly restart "xprint" for the changes to have an > >> > effect. (I don't think xprint is restarted automatically when you > >> > restart the X server; at least during bootup and shutdown it seems > >> > to be a separate item.) > >> > > >> >Furthermore, I now realized that my default printer just happens to > >> > be the first one when all printers are listed alphabetically, so > >> > maybe achieving the desired effect was accidental in my case. > >> > >> 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. > > Odd, I haven't had any trouble with firefox, but everytime I put in a > security update of mozilla, it reverts to some nonsense about a > postscript printer $33 or some such that doesn't work, but the other 4 > of them are available and useable via the multiselector. I had it > fixed once, but maybe its something in the environment. > > Hummph... I just checked to make sure I wasn't fibbing, and both moz > and firefox now seem to autoselect the default "postscript/lp2" > printer. I have 4 printer defines, with a 360x360 setup as lp2 & set > as the default. As to why it suddenly started working I haven't the > foggiest. One of those things that make you go Hummmmm... > > FWIW, this box isn't debian, but a rather hacked up FC2 install. I > prefer to fix broken stuff by fixing the broken stuff as opposed to > blindly updateing in hopes it will fix whatever is makeing me itch at > the moment. There are some things I stay current with, like amanda, > and kernels, 2.6.16-rc4 atm. But I do have a debian based install on > my milling machines controller box, bdi-4.30, hence my subscribing to > this list. My firewall used to be the main box, with a similarly > hacked up rh7.3 on it. Uptime there is since I installed 2.4.28 on it > nearly a year ago now. BIG ups. > > But cups, being fairly universally used these days, is only > distro-centric in the screwball names debian uses for it, so if I can > help, I try to, hopefully not running afoul of a debianism when I do. > And there certianly is enough of those to go around. :) > > >-- > >Paul E Condon > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Cheers Paul, Gene
Something happened to access to my laser printer under CUPS from my Macs (also using CUPS) while I was working this firefox issue. Now there is no Mac access to the printer. I am depressed. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
