Re: no printer in latest iceweasel
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 17:35:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:05:05 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > >> The version of iceweasel in Unstable will only print to a file; no
> > >> printers are listed. This is probably an upstream bug in iceweasel
> > >> because Google shows that people using other distros have got it too.
> > >>
> > >> Anyone know a way of fixing this? I have tried editing the print stuff
> > >> in about:config (ignoring a strange message about possible invalidation
> > >> of my warranty -- what warranty?) but it doesn't help. I also removed
> > >> all the referenes to "print" in pref.js, without effect.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I have iceweasel 3.0~rc2-1 (sid) and I get my only printer listed.
> >
> > My guess is that you use CUPS and Anthony probably does not.
> >
>
> Correct, I have lpr.
I have the impression that the support for piping the print job to lpr
(or an equivalent command) has been removed or at least reduced
significantly. I initially suspected this when I saw that iceweasel no
longer opens the KDE print dialog. With previous versions it had been
possible to set print.print_command to "kprinter", which behaves like
lpr with a graphical printer selection dialog. Now I find that the
print.print_command setting is ignored; it does not matter if I set it
to "kprinter", the "lpr ..." default, or even "/bin/false" - I always
get a printer selection dialog with all configured CUPS printers if
cupsd is running and only the "print to file" option otherwise.
I now ran strace on iceweasel and printed something. I saw that
iceweasel uses GTK's libprintbackend-cups.so and it connects to
/var/run/cups/cups.sock to discover and use the configured printers. The
CUPS integration has obviously been improved (including the new dialog
for selecting a printer and setting the print preferences), but it seems
that this was been done at the expense of lpr.
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