Hi there,
Thanks for your reply.
...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.
It sounds like Augment_Printer_List is just expecting a single
string, which is why it works when you give it the script. It's
only reading up till the first whitespace. Did you try putting
"quotes" around "/usr/bin/printers |cut -f1" (though my guess is
that won't work, it'll just try to use '"/usr/bin/printers' instead)
Yeah, it doesn't work if you put quotes round it - complains about not
finding the second quote (the same behaviour if I use " or ')
If it's just reversing the normal order, then of course you can add
" | sort -r" or whatever in your script.
Yes, it's reversing the order, but it uses a custom sort order, so I'd
have to change the script so it sort in reverse order purely for the
purpose of getting it in the right order from Xprt.
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?
I think you want to
use /usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print/attributes/printer. See the line
*xp-model-identifier: PSdefault
If I read it right, you change it to things like
name1.xp-model-identifier: PSdefault
name2.xp-model-identifier: CANONBJ10E-GS
name3.xp-model-identifier: HPDJ1600C
etc
where the various models are defined
in /usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print/models.
OK, thanks, I'll look more into this when I get basic Xprint operation
working correctly.
Cheers
Toby
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