I can't find much information, but I think that the original Print
command, kprinter, was part of the kdeprinter package, which is not
installed and not in the repos.
Despite what I first reported, lpr will work. The computer I was on
when visiting, a Dell Dimension 4300, may have an issue with
hot-plugging the USB printer/scanner. (For instance, though I didn't
get to test it properly, it seemed that scanning would only work when
the scanner was powered on during boot.)
However, I'll make the case that commonly expected behavior is for a
Print dialog to appear, which of course doesn't happen with lpr.
Granted, there is a counter-argument for maximum lightness.
And now that I'm back on my usual current Lubuntu desktop, I notice that
the context menu for a picture file also includes Shotwell Viewer, and
choosing this opens the file in a lighter variant of the Shotwell
interface. The Shotwell Viewer interface includes File: Print, which
opens a customary Print dialog.
As I noted in my original post, I installed Shotwell after realizing
that there was no default photo management app, and Shotwell seemed to
be the commonest recommendation, though Andre Rodovalho posted in this
thread that he is using a non-repo version of Fotoxx. He says there is
an older version in the repos.
I realize I'm saying that in a couple ways, default Lubuntu is a little
too light for my taste (no photo manager, image viewer doesn't print).
But MtPaint printing should be fixed somehow in any case.
On 4/6/2015 10:04 AM, John Hupp 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
<mailto: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?
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