xfce4 panel - print icon

[Mark Welker]

Hi,

There is a bug in Open Office 1.0.3
It is a printing issue.
Go to Open Office's web site and get 1.0.3.1
or the patch for 1.0.3


On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Collins Richey wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:34:09 -0600
> Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 14:15:06 -0400
> > "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Do you have cups or lpr installed?
> > >
> > >
> > > > How does one configure this to work with the printer?
> > > >
> > > > When I drag a file to the printer icon, a box opens up that tells
> > > > me that only print to file is available, and that operation fails.
> > > >
> > > > Second attempt to use this tells me that
> > > > /home/collins/xfprint-manager does not exist.
> > > >
> > > > I can't seem to find any useful help file.
> > > >
> > > > How can I configure the printer icon?  Properties doesn't have
> > > > anything useful.
> > >
> >
> > Yes - cups at the moment.  OO, for example, requires not special
> > tweaking to print.  Simple 'cat something | lpr' is all that's
> > required to get something to the printer.
> >
>
> I'm not sure how the settings wound up this way, but a little guesswork
> was successful.  There is no /home/collins/xfprint-manager, but
> executing xfprint-manager led me to a dialog to define a printer.  Since
> my cups filter & ghostscript handle that, I selected postscript printer.
>
> Then changing the properties of the icon to execute simply xfprint works
> like a champ.
>
> Hope this helps anyone else who falls into this snakepit.
>
> --
> Collins Richey - Denver Area
> gentoo stable - ext3
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Mark Welker
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