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> 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?
