Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

["Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Florian Kulzer
<florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:07:36 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 17:10:35 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my
>> >> spooler engine, I don't  get in the file-print menu an option to print
>> >> PostScript/default as I do with iceape.
>
> [...]
>
>> > If you are using iceweasel version 3, see here:
>> >
>> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00523.html
>
> [...]
>
>> Yeap, I use debian unstable, and the iceweasel version is 3.0.3.  Bad
>> thing is that I don't use gnome (neither kde for that matter), just
>> plain fluxbox.  So after generating by hand "~/.gtkrc-2.0", and
>> including in it gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups", did not help me
>> at all, and I do have installed libgtk2.0-0...
>
> Just to make sure: Did you close and restart iceweasel after creating
> the configuration file?

My bad.  I was still leaving an iceape instance alive (the
communicator one)...  After closing everything and loading iceape
again, I got it working, :).

> You can test whether your iceweasel really opens the configuration file
> if you install the "strace" package and do this:
>
> strace -efile iceweasel 2>&1 | grep gtkrc
>
> (Be prepared for a longer startup time and a general sluggishness of the
>  user interface if you run iceweasel like that.)
>
>> No way to do this inside iceweasel itself?
>
> If I remember the discussion in July correctly then we did not find a
> way; that was quite frustrating for the lpr(ng) users until Jan Willem
> Stumpel posted the solution via gtkrc. You should maybe read the entire
> thread yourself; I use CUPS and was not affected by the problem, so I
> did not pay attention to every detail.

Yeap, I read the thread, and that seemed to be the only solution
indeed.  Bad thing iceweasel lost its way, :)

> --
> Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>          Florian   |

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Javier