Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?
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. :)
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>Paul E Condon
>pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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