On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:02:09 -0700 Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> 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. 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 > > > -- > Paul E Condon > pecondon@mesanetworks.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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