Re: Xprint is available

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:14:06PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>> How about shipping /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75xprt-xprintorg_setenv
>> consisting only of
>> -----------------
>> XPSERVERLIST="`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`"
>> export XPSERVERLIST
>> -----------------
 
> I'd be happy to do this.  I don't really understand how it works
> though. To whom will the variable be available?  To every process that
> starts from within X?
[...]

Hello,
AFAIK yes, I just testet with startx:
startx(25961)-xinit(25968)+XFree86(25969)
                          `-sh(25973)+WindowMaker(26026)-asclock(26031)
                                     `-ssh-agent(26025)

any children of 25973 (including the windowmanager) have it in the
environment. See Xsession(5) for details.

BTW I just recompiled your package on woody (it is big!) and gave it a
short shot with mozilla, the results were amazing, it worked and I
could print http://piology.org/entities.html[1]  - If I used the normal
postscript printer-driver of mozilla only ~50% of the special characters
were printed.

OTOH the quality was quite bad, blurred and greyish looking. Once I try
to configure the beast it might get better.

How does xprint print? Does it call /usr/bin/lpr? If it does, it might
be nice to make it possible to use it without local spooling and a
without a local lprng-daemon.
            thanks for the work, cu andreas
[1] I only tested the first page