Firefox won't print to the local printer, other things will
Tim
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Thu Apr 20 05:31:24 UTC 2006
Tim:
>> If you mean replacing this line in the Firefox printing configuration
>> with "xpp", then that didn't help.:
>> lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
>>
>> I can't find anything that refers to xpp, either (not even a "yum search
>> xpp" or "yum search XPP").
Anne Wilson:
> That's the line to replace. Yes, I can't find it either, which surprises me a
> bit. As far as I know xpp is a fairly standard gnome printing package.
Well, I can't find any reference to it anywhere, other than the CUPS
website. So I don't think it's here, nor apparently installable by YUM.
Trying to put it into that location didn't help, nothing happens
(print-wise). You see some apparent progress, as it appears to get
ready to print (the progress display pop-up, and a progress bar quickly
goes from zero to full, but nothing else really happens). After a few
minutes the printer configurating dialogue box returns, probably waiting
for me to correct it.
>> NB: I use Gnome, and have no KDE installation on my systems. 'tis the
>> way it's going to stay, too.
> Your choice. Personally I prefer to use the best tool for the job in hand, be
> it gnome or kde-based.
My dislike of KDE aside (for numerous reasons), I don't see that adding
many megs of extra KDE or xpp files is a solution. For the one thing,
one of the FC4 boxes prints fine, the others are playing silly buggers,
and they *used* to print without any issues. None of them have KDE, so
it's clearly not needed. I just can't tell what the difference is
between the different boxes at this stage.
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