Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-19 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 11 maart 2019 04:48:03 CET schreef Chris Roy-Smith: > On 10/3/19 7:45 pm, Colin Law wrote: > > Thanks Chris. That could indeed be useful. One should always > > remember, though, that with a ppa one is reliant on the integrity of > > the packager to build what you are expecting. There

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-11 Thread Colin Law
David I agree it is not generally a problem, but I think it is worth pointing out in case there are those here who did not realise the potential risk. I also have never had an issue with a ppa, but if it is built by a name I do not recognise then I would always have a look at his/her profile in o

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-11 Thread David Cousens
Colin ppa's are always a risk but so far I have never struck a problem using reasonably well known ones Daivd - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-10 Thread Chris Roy-Smith
On 10/3/19 7:45 pm, Colin Law wrote: Thanks Chris. That could indeed be useful. One should always remember, though, that with a ppa one is reliant on the integrity of the packager to build what you are expecting. There is nothing to stop someone modifying the code for nefarious purposes and bu

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-10 Thread Colin Law
Thanks Chris. That could indeed be useful. One should always remember, though, that with a ppa one is reliant on the integrity of the packager to build what you are expecting. There is nothing to stop someone modifying the code for nefarious purposes and building it into a ppa. Looking at the p

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-10 Thread Chris Roy-Smith
On 10/3/19 7:17 pm, Colin Law wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 08:07, Chris Roy-Smith wrote: Hi David, thanks for the explanation. I have set-up the ppa, and all works fine now. Which ppa is that? I didn't know there is a gnucash ppa. Colin Here is the ppa I used ppa:sicklylife/gnucash regar

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-10 Thread Chris Roy-Smith
On 10/3/19 7:17 pm, Colin Law wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 08:07, Chris Roy-Smith wrote: Hi David, thanks for the explanation. I have set-up the ppa, and all works fine now. Which ppa is that? I didn't know there is a gnucash ppa. Colin here is the one I used, it gives version 3.4 ppa:sic

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-10 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 08:07, Chris Roy-Smith wrote: > > Hi David, > thanks for the explanation. I have set-up the ppa, and all works fine now. Which ppa is that? I didn't know there is a gnucash ppa. Colin > > > > On 10/3/19 6:10 pm, David Cousens wrote: > > Chris, > > > > You possibly have i

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-10 Thread Chris Roy-Smith
Hi David, thanks for the explanation. I have set-up the ppa, and all works fine now. On 10/3/19 6:10 pm, David Cousens wrote: Chris, You possibly have installed the flatpak version of GnuCash in which case it is possibly settings in the flathub support which restrict GnuCash from accessing th

Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-09 Thread David Cousens
Chris, You possibly have installed the flatpak version of GnuCash in which case it is possibly settings in the flathub support which restrict GnuCash from accessing the printer. Flatpak is a sandbox which isolates the application from the OS. One of the developers has been working on getting a fla

[GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-09 Thread Chris Roy-Smith
Hi I was running ver 2.6, Printing offered a list of printers that the computer "knew about". This was updated to 3.2 (via Linux mint updates). Now the only printing options offered in the print dialogue is "file" and "lpr". Print to file works as expected, but printing to lpr does nothing. P