Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:01, Paul E Condon wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:02, Paul E Condon wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See
below.

[...]

The mozilla-xprint behavior is mostly controlled by the
settings in /etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters.

On my machine the above named file exists and contains the
lines referred to below. But it also contains the following
comments:

<quote>
# X*printers sample configuration file
#
#
# This file belongs in /usr/lib/X11/X*printers, where the "*"
is the # display number of the server. For example, if the
server is # invoked using the command X :0, then the
X0printers file is used.
##############################################################
### ### #### </quote>

When I make changes to this file and restart my X system, I
see no change in behavior. Perhaps I need to make a copy per
this comment. But this seems to me to violate Debian policy,
so I wonder if there is not something else that should be done
instead.

Just to make sure what you mean by "restarting your X system":
You have to explicitly restart "xprint" for the changes to have
an effect. (I don't think xprint is restarted automatically
when you restart the X server; at least during bootup and
shutdown it seems to be a separate item.)

Furthermore, I now realized that my default printer just happens
to be the first one when all printers are listed
alphabetically, so maybe achieving the desired effect was
accidental in my case.

And I'll submit that if cups and gutenprint are properly
installed and configured it works, and does so without any
interference from xprint. I saw it in an htop report one day, got
curious and stopped it, also disabling its startup at boot time.
That was about a month ago and I've yet to have anything refuse
to print or print wrongly in any way. So I've removed one
potential source of printing mischief.

What exactly WAS it supposed to do anyway?

Regards,
Florian

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Cheers, Gene

Hi, Gene.

I'm the OP on this thread. My complaint is that firefox print
window always lists five candidate printers, only two of which
actually work and neither of these is ever the default selection.
Every time I forget to explicitlys select a printer, I fail to get
my printout. I find this an annoying waste of time.

Odd, I haven't had any trouble with firefox, but everytime I put in
a security update of mozilla, it reverts to some nonsense about a
postscript printer $33 or some such that doesn't work, but the other
4 of them are available and useable via the multiselector. I had it
fixed once, but maybe its something in the environment.

Hummph... I just checked to make sure I wasn't fibbing, and both
moz and firefox now seem to autoselect the default "postscript/lp2"
printer. I have 4 printer defines, with a 360x360 setup as lp2 &
set as the default. As to why it suddenly started working I haven't
the foggiest. One of those things that make you go Hummmmm...

FWIW, this box isn't debian, but a rather hacked up FC2 install. I
prefer to fix broken stuff by fixing the broken stuff as opposed to
blindly updateing in hopes it will fix whatever is makeing me itch
at the moment. There are some things I stay current with, like
amanda, and kernels, 2.6.16-rc4 atm. But I do have a debian based
install on my milling machines controller box, bdi-4.30, hence my
subscribing to this list. My firewall used to be the main box, with
a similarly hacked up rh7.3 on it. Uptime there is since I
installed 2.4.28 on it nearly a year ago now. BIG ups.

But cups, being fairly universally used these days, is only
distro-centric in the screwball names debian uses for it, so if I
can help, I try to, hopefully not running afoul of a debianism when
I do. And there certianly is enough of those to go around. :)

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Cheers Paul, Gene

Something happened to access to my laser printer under CUPS from my
Macs (also using CUPS) while I was working this firefox issue. Now
there is no Mac access to the printer. I am depressed.

I think at this point I'd go back to localhost:631 and reconfigure,
somethings not right.

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