Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 24 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Correct, I have lpr.
I have the impression that the support for piping the print job to lpr
(or an equivalent command) has been removed or at least reduced
significantly. I initially suspected this when I saw that iceweasel no
longer opens the KDE print dialog. With previous versions it had been
possible to set print.print_command to "kprinter", which behaves like
lpr with a graphical printer selection dialog. Now I find that the
print.print_command setting is ignored; it does not matter if I set it
to "kprinter", the "lpr ..." default, or even "/bin/false" - I always
get a printer selection dialog with all configured CUPS printers if
cupsd is running and only the "print to file" option otherwise.
I now ran strace on iceweasel and printed something. I saw that
iceweasel uses GTK's libprintbackend-cups.so and it connects to
/var/run/cups/cups.sock to discover and use the configured printers. The
CUPS integration has obviously been improved (including the new dialog
for selecting a printer and setting the print preferences), but it seems
that this was been done at the expense of lpr.
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This is a retrograde development. A principal advantage of Linux has
always been that you had a wide choice, but this restricts choice. It
seems that I must either use CUPS, which I don't want to do, or print to
file and then print that.
I did not want to use CUPS a few years ago. But not using it got to be
too much of a hassle.
Hugo
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