On 8/26/05, James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Eric Persson wrote: > > I'm using a debian testing environment on my laptop, and most of the stuff > > works good now, but printing is still a bit strange. > > Cupsys and gimp-print have improved things tremendously, if your printer > is supported... Unfortunately, firefox uses Xprt instead and we need to > deal with it too. I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that Xprt > is considered the better of the two. Be aware however, that the default > Xprt shipped with your X server is said to be seriously broken. Debian > provides other packages to replace it. > > > I can print pdfs with gpdf, and documents from openoffice, but I cant print > > anything from firefox, even though I select the same printers in the menus. > > Using "PostScript/lpr" in the list works for me. It was provided by the > xprint package (testing/unstable, it might be called xprint-xorg in stable). > > Making it the default required some editing of /etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters: > > Augment_Printer_List %none% > # Printer xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs > # Printer xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs > > Hang in there, it'll work eventually! :-) Does it mean one has to change config for each app separately?
-- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
