On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 16:36:08 +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> This is current/amd64 with firefox-68.0.2
>
> Firefox does not offer any prtinters in the printing dialogue
> except (Print to file").
>
> lpd/lpr itself works fine. This is my /etc/printcap:
> lp:lp=:rm=147.32.232.36:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> Each of "date | lpr" and "lpr file.pdf" works.
>
> I removed the entire ~/.mozilla directory fo make sure
> it is not some of my firefox settings.
>
> Is this known?
> Is a fix known?
Printing in Firefox is handled through Gtk 3.
Gtk should present a "Print to LPR" option in that common print
dialog by way of
/usr/local/lib/gtk+3/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-lpr.so,
which is supposed to get loaded/registered dynamically according to
gtk_print_backends in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini or the default
at build-time, which includes it according to x11/gtk+3:
# configure will disable lpr in default gtk-print-backends if cups is found
MAKE_FLAGS= GTK_PRINT_BACKENDS="file,lpr,cups,cloudprint"
I'm taking a look into why that lpr backend doesn't load...
