Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Right the choices are A) not print, B) downgrade or C) install |> xprt-xprintorg. Personally I think people should try C before |> bitching too much.
Option C) was the one that I tried, and I've had all the problems reported here. First no printing at all, until I installed xprt-xprintorg. Still no printing until I edited .bash_profile in mysterious ways I found discussed on this list (kill X, log out, log in, start X); then tiny quarter-page size printing; then hunting through Google, and mailing-list archives, and FAQs, trying to find out where the configuration files were kept[1] (this information isn't anywhere that I at least can find in /usr/share/doc/xprt-xprintorg), and trying to find which one to edit; then editing in trial and error fashion. After half a day or so of work, I have restored my ability to print from a browser (an ability which, like most users, I was able to take for granted before). I can't imagine that there are many desktop-users who are going to be willing or able to go through this. What would Eric Raymond's Aunt Tillie (`the archetypal nontechnical user')[2] make of it? Jim [1] It turns out that they're in /etc/Xprint/ [2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
