On 24 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Correct, I have lpr. > > I have the impression that the support for piping the print job to lpr > (or an equivalent command) has been removed or at least reduced > significantly. I initially suspected this when I saw that iceweasel no > longer opens the KDE print dialog. With previous versions it had been > possible to set print.print_command to "kprinter", which behaves like > lpr with a graphical printer selection dialog. Now I find that the > print.print_command setting is ignored; it does not matter if I set it > to "kprinter", the "lpr ..." default, or even "/bin/false" - I always > get a printer selection dialog with all configured CUPS printers if > cupsd is running and only the "print to file" option otherwise. > > I now ran strace on iceweasel and printed something. I saw that > iceweasel uses GTK's libprintbackend-cups.so and it connects to > /var/run/cups/cups.sock to discover and use the configured printers. The > CUPS integration has obviously been improved (including the new dialog > for selecting a printer and setting the print preferences), but it seems > that this was been done at the expense of lpr. > > --
This is a retrograde development. A principal advantage of Linux has always been that you had a wide choice, but this restricts choice. It seems that I must either use CUPS, which I don't want to do, or print to file and then print that. -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]