Cool, missed that one entirely. Thanks!
Any ideas of the best place to put it?
For now it went into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/93xprint-default since I want
it to be set whenever X is started. It seems to work :-)
/M
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 05:54:00AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>> I have two network printers configured in CUPS:
>>
>> bern (CUPS default)
>> escher
>>
>> FireFox finds both (through XPrint I guess), but it disregards the CUPS
>> setting for what printer should be the default one. Can I somehow get
>> XPrint or FireFox to use bern as its default?
>
>>From the Xprint FAQ (http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html):
>-- snip --
>How do I configure Xprint on the client side ?
>A: There are two env vars which control Xprint on the client side:
>[snip]
>2. The env variable ${XPRINTER} defines the default printer used by
> print applications. The syntax is either <printername> or
> <printername>@<display>
>
>Examples:
>a.
> % export XPRINTER=ps003
> tells an application to look for the first printer named
> "ps003" on all Xprt servers.
>b.
> % export XPRINTER="hplaser19@littlecat:80"
> tells an application to look for the printer "hplaser19" on
> the Xprt display "littlecat:80".
>Note:
> If ${XPRINTER} is not set the applications will examine the values of
> the ${PDPRINTER}, ${LPDEST}, and ${PRINTER} env vars (in that order).
>-- snip --
>
>You either set the ${XPRINTER} env var if you only want to affect Xprint
>clients or use the Unix standard var ${LPDEST} ...
>
>----
>
>Bye,
>Roland
>
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