Cannot get anything to print from GUI apps in Sarge
I installed debian about a year ago and I'm pretty sure I did not
install cups since I am a lot more familiar with lprng. So I assume cups
was installed "transparently" - possibly when I installed the KDE
desktop (?)
Now although I have been able to print test pages from KDEPrint and
short text files from the cli using the lp command.. and printing from a
KDE/qt app such as LyX works fine (albeit with a caveat.. I am presented
w/ two successive popups, the LyX one and then the KDEprint one.. this
last one can take 10-15 seconds before it appears..) but I don't seem to
be able to print anything from some non-KDE apps - eg. mozilla. It
appears that these apps invoke the lpr print command - rather than
cups's lp and changing the output command manually in these GUI apps
only results in silence - nothing gets printed.. or error messages.
Since the only printer I have is an ancient B&W postscript printer (HP
laserjet 2100M) is it really worth trying to get cups to work or should
I try to switch to something more basic like lprng..?
Note: I use neither gnome nor KDE - just a window manager and mostly
xterm+cli.
Tia.
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