Re: Setting default printing across applications

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

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.


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"

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

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