Hi there, I'm relatively new to Xprint - we've just started using it across our systems. We're running release 0.9.001.0 on Fedora Core 3, our printing system is LPRng based, serving approximately 60 printers from 4 print servers.
I'm looking at configuring the behaviour of Xprint a bit for our systems, but am experiencing some odd behaviour. Firstly I'd like to have more control over the list of printers Xprint provides. We have a local command 'printers' which provides a very basic list of printers in the following form: name\tdescription # where \t is a tab So, going by the info in the FAQ, I put the following line in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/C/print/Xprinters: Augment_Printer_List /usr/bin/printers |cut -f1 ...and, after restarting Xprt, I look at the list of printers in Firefox and find that it seems to have taken the output of /usr/bin/printers, but not piped it through 'cut', i.e. printers are listed of the form 'name HP4100DTN on 4th Floor'. I can put the line '/usr/bin/printers |cut -f1' in a separate script, change Xprinters to Augment_Printer_List /path/to/one/line/script ... and it works OK. This is the first oddity. The second one is the ordering of the printer list - our 'printers' command sorts the list of printers according to certain criteria, this seems to be reversed by Xprint, i.e. our order of name1 name2 name3 ....turns into name3 name2 name1 ... with the xp_[pdf|ps]spooldir printers interspersed at strange points in the output (one is second in the list, after my default printer and the other is in the place where the default printer would have been). While I'm on the subject of the printer list provided by Xprint, is there any way of formatting this output in any way? e.g. we have 60+ printers - I would like to be able to split this list up, so that the user sees, say, 4 categories which contain printers, rather than a massive list. I realise this is probably a function of the client app, but thought it worth checking. Also, one other important question on a different matter, how does Xprint relate printer names to their models? There is mention in the FAQ of family/class but it doesn't describe how to tell Xprint which family/class a particular printer belongs to. If I have a list of printers specified in the way above, how does Xprint know what model each printer is, so we can use model-specific configurations? Apologies for the length of this post. Many thanks in advance for any help. Toby Blake School of Informatics University of Edinburgh _______________________________________________ Xprint mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/xprint
