On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:11:26PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Thanks Gee > > On (16/05/03 13:23), Gee Law wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:05:12PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > I've set-up printing using CUPS which works fine for Konqueror (KDE3.1) > > > and K-Write but if I try to print from say Galeon or AbiWord the printer > > > defaults to "lpr". I found by accident that changing the printer to "lp" > > > works and so for those applications printing is fine. > > > > > > My difficulty arises when printing from a Shell, in particular Mutt. I > > > can't find where to set the default printing instruction to "lp". I > > > checked through .muttrc and there didn't appear to be any relevant > > > references in there. > > > > print_command perhaps? > > > > e.g. > > > > # muttprint stuff > > set print_command="muttprint" > > > I've made progress of sorts - set print_command="muttprint" The > muttprint man page recommends that you set the name of the printer > because lp doesn't work - so I've named the printer Epson in > /etc/Muttprintrc. > Do you have the muttprint documentation package installed? It has step by step instructions. Here are the relevant lines from my .muttrc: set print_command="muttprint" set print="yes" macro index p <display-toggle-weed><print-message><display-toggle-weed><exit> macro pager p <display-toggle-weed><print-message><display-toggle-weed> You need to have set print="yes" otherwise it won't work (see the manaul). From what I understand you need to set PRINT_COMMAND to lp in .muttprintrc. You shouldn't need to change PRINTER. > > When I print a message in mutt it says it has printed but nothing happens. > I tried $ lpq -P Epson which returned "lpq: Epson: unknown printer" The printer name that the man{ual,page} is referring to is the system printer names, i.e. the names in /etc/printcap.cups It's strange that lpr doesn't work and lp does. > > lpq contains, I guess, all of the messages I've tried to date so they > are spooling but getting lp to print to the Epson seems to be the > problem. > > Any further guidance would be appreciated > > Regards > > Clive > > www.clivemenzies.co.uk - strategies for business > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Gee Law, gee(at)cromulent(dot)org(dot)uk www.dizzyduck.uklinux.net [GPG key]
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