linux-firefox : cups printers not found

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 09:17:18 UTC 2006


On 7/23/06, Beni <beni at brinckman.info> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 July 2006 01:08, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:32:05 +0400
> >
> > "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 7/20/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> > > > hi all,
> > > > I recently changed www/firefox for www/linux-firefox . I now realised
> > > > that my CUPS printers are not available from File - Print., only
> > > > 'Postcript/default' is available.
> > >
>
> I have the same problem here :-)
>
> > > You should set "Print command" in printer properties of
> > > PostScript/default to "/usr/local/bin/lp" with arguments you
> > > need.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, Andrew - but isn't that the command to use when
> > printing? the cmd shown is :
> >
> > lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
> >
>
> I changed this to "kprinter --stdin" and now I get the standard
> kprinter-window where I can chose a printer.

Yes, it's a good way. I've used gtklp for this. Still investigation
is pending for this matter. You can file a PR if you like or poke
me in some time as I tend to forget such things.

Thanks!


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