Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>Paul E Condon wrote:
>> Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below.
>
>[...]
>
>>>The mozilla-xprint behavior is mostly controlled by the settings in
>>>/etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters.
>>
>> On my machine the above named file exists and contains the lines
>> referred to below. But it also contains the following comments:
>>
>> <quote>
>> # X*printers sample configuration file
>> #
>> #
>> # This file belongs in /usr/lib/X11/X*printers, where the "*" is the
>> # display number of the server. For example, if the server is
>> # invoked using the command X :0, then the X0printers file is used.
>> ####################################################################
>>#### </quote>
>>
>> When I make changes to this file and restart my X system, I see no
>> change in behavior. Perhaps I need to make a copy per this comment.
>> But this seems to me to violate Debian policy, so I wonder if there
>> is not something else that should be done instead.
>
>Just to make sure what you mean by "restarting your X system": You
> have to explicitly restart "xprint" for the changes to have an
> effect. (I don't think xprint is restarted automatically when you
> restart the X server; at least during bootup and shutdown it seems to
> be a separate item.)
>
>Furthermore, I now realized that my default printer just happens to be
>the first one when all printers are listed alphabetically, so maybe
>achieving the desired effect was accidental in my case.
And I'll submit that if cups and gutenprint are properly installed and
configured it works, and does so without any interference from xprint.
I saw it in an htop report one day, got curious and stopped it, also
disabling its startup at boot time. That was about a month ago and
I've yet to have anything refuse to print or print wrongly in any way.
So I've removed one potential source of printing mischief.
What exactly WAS it supposed to do anyway?
>Regards,
> Florian
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