Bug#371870: xprint: all printer entries in mozilla are gone

[uwe@ibr.ch (Uwe Storbeck)]

Hi Drew

> Uwe, you could install firefox for comparison (which still uses
> xprint).

Printing with firefox still works (if XPSERVERLIST is set, as I wrote
in my last mail). But unfortunatly printing with firefox is buggy (only
the first print job is ok, afterwards the page header and footer are
screwed up - no punctuation characters in the URL, page numbers are
only printed as "of" and the date is missing) and the used fonts are
ugly. So I always have prefered to print with mozilla.

> What is your underlying print server?

lpr

> You add new printers via
> the printer system interface, not in iceape itself, but iceape should
> pick them up.

All printers are added to /etc/printcap. Printing from the command line
works.

> More details about this.  startx (and xinit) should be accessing
> /etc/X11/Xsession and its scripts automatically, that is XPSERVERLIST
> should be set automatically, even from startx.  I presume this did not
> happen for you because you have ~/.xinitrc set up to manually start the
> programs you want.  In this case your .xinitrc will be used instead of
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and so /etc/X11/Xsession will not be invoked
> (unless you invoke it yourself inside .xinitrc).

I have no .xinitrc, but a .xsession file. Maybe there's the problem.
But I don't worry to set XPSERVERLIST manually, if that's enough to
make printing from firefox work. I would be pleased if there were
a comparably easy way to make printing from mozilla work again.

Uwe