Re: Mozilla printer problems
Hi Tom,
Perhaps your Mozilla build requires the Xprint package. Try installing
xprt-xprintorg (and its depends) and see if mozilla can print.
-- Brad
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Tom Allison wrote:
> I'm having difficulties getting my cups printer to work with Mozilla.
>
> The printer is located on a different box (server). But for this client, I
> can successfully print using 'cat foo | lpr' and Open Office documents as
> well..
>
> But Mozilla tends to hang. There is a lot of traffic to the server in the
> ipp port, but nothing ever gets printed and Mozilla is effectively toast at
> this point. I have to 'kill' it.
>
> my variable $MOZ_PRINTER_NAME seems to be null as far as I can tell. I
> started up Mozilla from a xterm window and the variable had no definition
> in the same xterm windows (mozilla; echo ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME})
>
> I have found this mentioned a few times on Debian and Suse lists from
> google-ing, but I don't seem to find anyone who has resolved the matter.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla.
> lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
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