On Tuesday 11 February 2003 05:37, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> Krishna,
>       in the proper american idiom you are sol. Neither Gnome, nor KDE,
> nor plain xterm support local printing. I find it very,very frustrating.
> You will be forced to create hp direct style queues and do rewrites to
> perfectly good software to accomodate them. The really insulting part is
> that the print queues are not fully 2-way.

rXvt supports it.  It is a compile time option, though.  Runs TERM=vt102.  I 
had to hack it to support Wyse50 slave printing (different codes), and sent 
the changes to the authors, but they ignored me :) [it's an ugly hack, not 
really useful to most people].  rXvt looks at the PRINTER environment 
variable, IIRC.

>       I have talked to Mike Meeks of Ximian at the Linuxworld, and he
> says that gnome term might be extended to support screen print of
> character data, but seems to be opposed to any support of the xterminal
> style printing controlled by xdefaults specified attributes (no
> decTerminalID or PrinterCommand for us). Very, very frustrating.

Is he also opposed to other people submitting a patch to support it?  It can't 
be that hard, and its useful to a lot of people who connect to older Unix 
machines.

> I have
> actually gone through the rewrite of my business app to accomodate the
> broken printing on linux ("we like the xterm, but we sure don't understand
> the man pages"  seems to be the motto there). There is a commercial app
> that supposedly supports local print, but I just couldn't make it run.
> good luck, julius

> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Krishna Padilha wrote:
> > I have some terms that use telnet to connect to ltsp
> > I need to use the printer attached to term via slave
> > printer command. Anyone knows how do I make that?
>
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