-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Dear all! > > Are there any suggestions as to "howto setup printing systemwide" for > firefox, iceweasel, icedove and other gnome applications? > > We have nfs-mounted home-directories, use a cups-server for printing, > and most users use kde and kprinter. > > We use debian sarge, but I tested the following also with etch, since > etch is close enough to be released. > > # aptitude purge firefox > # aptitude install firefox > > $ rm -rf .mozilla/ > $ firefox > > ...to set all to default values. > > There are several issues: > > 1. all printers detected by firefox's printing system have paper size > set to 'letter' ignoring > # cat /etc/papersize > a4 > > Manually editing all the printer settings to a4 is not preserved on > upgrades of firefox. > > 2. selection of a printer is not remembered. Each time a user prints a > page, the first printer in the list is selected. Ie. if a user prints 5 > web pages on printer C, each time printer C has to be selected manually. > > 3. firefox's print dialog doesn't care about printer options. It is not > possible to select or deselect duplex printing etc. > > 4. header and footer lines (containing page numbers, urls, etc) are > printed only half or are completely outside the printer's margins. > > 5. firefox 1.5 default print command, > lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME: '-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} > doesn't work at all at our configuration. > > I guess there are some settings in about:config that could be changed, > but this has to be repeated each time there is an upgrade of firefox, > this has to be repeated for icedove, this has to be performed for each > user. I would rather have a system setting for all workstations and all > users. > > How do other debianists deal with it? Is there a 'nice' debian solution, > just editing some files in /etc? > > Today, a technical assistant considered these (especially 2. and 3.) as > "release critical" for herself and went back to use Windows NT 4.0 again > instead of debian sarge. > > For myself, I wouldn't consider M$ software a solution, but I am also > terribly annoyed by not being able to print properly and hassle free > from mozilla applications. (In particular, it's always that extra step > of manually selecting the printer 'default/postscript' and redirecting > it to kprinter.) > > Thanks, > > Johannes > > NB: > On debian etch: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 > Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2) > > xprint xprint-common are not installed. Those, if anything, made matters > worse, the last time I tried it. > >
Go into about:config and delete the problem printer setting. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFY4Evu4tRirKTPYwRAksXAJ0RPWfIvGw00otpTiiLHp6+e1tONQCfVseU PE8St4UJGLAyWWA5tVddZNE= =eP8M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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