Is more feedback provided if you run mtPaint on the command line? Might want to head to localhost:631 and make sure your printer is properly set up as the default, too.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:04 AM, John Hupp <lubu...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > The default print command is kprinter. > > Following the Puppy Linux article, I installed gtklp and then substituted > that for kprinter. > > Using lpr instead of gtklp for the print command does not work. At least to > the casual observer, it yields the same no-response as kprinter. > > On 4/5/2015 10:23 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > Seems like it's not a bug, per se. Intended function upstream, it seems. > What is the default print command? Does `lpr` work? I often use this on the > command line to print PDFs, so it seems plausible. This may be something we > can fix in the default settings of MtPaint, if we explore all of the > possible options and hopefully find the one that uses the least amount of > resources. Since `lpr` is included in the standard system, this would seem > to make the most sense. > > On Apr 5, 2015 5:15 PM, "John Hupp" <lubu...@prpcompany.com> wrote: >> >> Visiting family this weekend and looking at a couple problems, I >> discovered that under the default installation of Lubuntu 14.04 there seems >> to be no provision for printing pictures. >> >> The image viewer has no Print option. And when I instead opened a picture >> in mtPaint and then tried File: Action: Print Image, nothing happened. >> >> I got mtPaint's File: Action: Print Image functionality working by >> following the 'How to Print' section of this Puppy Linux article: >> http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingMtPaint >> >> I also found that I could print using Firefox, but I would have expected >> to be able to print a pic via the image viewer or the paint program. >> >> It seems like more than a trivial omission to have no default picture >> printing provision. >> >> [I had a similar realization recently regarding photo management. I >> installed Shotwell to add that capability, but it seemed like there should >> have been a native provision.] >> >> How do you handle these things? >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users