On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:06:47 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :( > > > > Requires re-login, but reboot should also be fine. :-) > > Rebooted and firefox did not print :(
Does it have some _overriding_ settings in its printer dialog? > Did not try these, as I reverted to .bashrc export PRINTER option. You said that bash's "echo $PRINTER" would show the correct name, so things should be fine. > This did work, the > $ lpr /etc/rc.conf > > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ echo $PRINTER > Deskjet > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ lpq > no entries > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ lpr /etc/rc.conf > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ lpq > Deskjet is ready and printing > Rank Owner Job Files Total Size > 1st olivares 6 /etc/rc.conf 512 bytes > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ As it should be. The processing from "plain text" to whatever you need for the printer is done by the printer filter (e. g. ghostscript-based, apsfilter, CUPS, or something custom). > Firefox 5 does not have the properties option :( you mentioned. It > has File -> Page Setup, File -> Print Preview, File -> Print [General > -> Page Settings -> Options], but no properties to change printer > options :( Very strange. But then, Firefox should address the DEFAULT printer queue, which is the one $PRINTER points to. Maybe you can try to print from a different web browser, e. g. Opera, just for testing? > Thank you for the help, I am almost there, in fact I > can live with what I got :) There is a "workaround" for this, and the emphasize is on "work": You can have Firefox printing to a file instead to the $PRINTER. This file will be a postscript file. You can _then_ send this PS file (per lpr <file>) to the printer. :-) But I would really suggest to look into Firefox's settings. There must be something strange inside. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"