Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

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

Ups, I meant iceweasel bellow...

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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  << mistake here <<
> 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