On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:24:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Printing From Firefox > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Carlos Konstanski wrote: > >> Next question then: does the lpr command work for you from the command >> line? Can you print a text file with "lpr <filename>? (Set up a >> default printer in CUPS first.) > > Carlos, > > I have a default printer set in CUPS; it's the same as it's been for > years. > > But, lpr is not working properly from the command line. It's printing a > newline but not with the carriage return. A text file prints line-by-line > but each new line begins below the end of the preceeding line (plus one > space). > > This is also fairly recent behavior. It used to work just fine in earlier > versions of Slackware/Xfce4/CUPS/whereever. I've no idea what broke. > >> I did have a machine once that gave me problems with lpr. I think it went >> south when I used KDE's printer GUI to set up printers. From then on, I >> had to use cupsdoprint in lieu of lpr. I wonder if xfce4 has a printer >> GUI, and its own print command? > > Xfce4 does have a printer settings command; the choices are NONE, CUPS, > and BSD-LPR. No output difference regardless of which is selected. PITA, eh? > > Thanks, > > Rich
I think it's safe to say that firefox is not the issue. Time to regroup and go after lpr. We must determine if there is some xfce4 print command that has hijacked lpr, like kde did to me. I have xfce4 installed; I'll look around. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
