Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?
On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:01, Paul E Condon wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:02, Paul E Condon wrote:
>> >On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Cheers, Gene
>> >
>> >Hi, Gene.
>> >
>> >I'm the OP on this thread. My complaint is that firefox print
>> > window always lists five candidate printers, only two of which
>> > actually work and neither of these is ever the default selection.
>> > Every time I forget to explicitlys select a printer, I fail to get
>> > my printout. I find this an annoying waste of time.
>>
>> Odd, I haven't had any trouble with firefox, but everytime I put in
>> a security update of mozilla, it reverts to some nonsense about a
>> postscript printer $33 or some such that doesn't work, but the other
>> 4 of them are available and useable via the multiselector. I had it
>> fixed once, but maybe its something in the environment.
>>
>> Hummph... I just checked to make sure I wasn't fibbing, and both
>> moz and firefox now seem to autoselect the default "postscript/lp2"
>> printer. I have 4 printer defines, with a 360x360 setup as lp2 &
>> set as the default. As to why it suddenly started working I haven't
>> the foggiest. One of those things that make you go Hummmmm...
>>
>> FWIW, this box isn't debian, but a rather hacked up FC2 install. I
>> prefer to fix broken stuff by fixing the broken stuff as opposed to
>> blindly updateing in hopes it will fix whatever is makeing me itch
>> at the moment. There are some things I stay current with, like
>> amanda, and kernels, 2.6.16-rc4 atm. But I do have a debian based
>> install on my milling machines controller box, bdi-4.30, hence my
>> subscribing to this list. My firewall used to be the main box, with
>> a similarly hacked up rh7.3 on it. Uptime there is since I
>> installed 2.4.28 on it nearly a year ago now. BIG ups.
>>
>> But cups, being fairly universally used these days, is only
>> distro-centric in the screwball names debian uses for it, so if I
>> can help, I try to, hopefully not running afoul of a debianism when
>> I do. And there certianly is enough of those to go around. :)
>>
>> >--
>> >Paul E Condon
>> >pecondon@mesanetworks.net
>>
>> --
>> Cheers Paul, Gene
>
>Something happened to access to my laser printer under CUPS from my
>Macs (also using CUPS) while I was working this firefox issue. Now
>there is no Mac access to the printer. I am depressed.
>
I think at this point I'd go back to localhost:631 and reconfigure,
somethings not right.
>--
>Paul E Condon
>pecondon@mesanetworks.net
--
Cheers, Gene
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