How does one print in XFce?

[Jean-François Wauthy]

Le lundi 20 décembre 2004 à 20:02 -0800, Anthony Ewell a écrit :
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > If you run the web configuration for cups or check in /etc/printcap there 
> > is an name for the printer - mine is Epson1280. I had to put that for the 
> > system name in xfce4 printer management.  It looks like Oki14 is what you 
> > need.
> > 
> >   On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Anthony 
> > Ewell wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>brettholcomb at charter.net wrote:
> >>
> >>>Do you have cups or lpr installed?  I use cups and simply went to the 
> >>>XFCE 
> >>>printer setup (toolbox) and put in the name of the printer AS IT IS
> >>>DEFINED TO CUPS.
> >>>
> >>
> >>CUPS.
> >>
> >>What do you mean "AS IT IS DEFINED TO CUPS?"  Do you mean
> >>my /etc/printcap?
> >>
> >>
> >>>This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
> >>>/etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
> >>>will be lost.
> >>
> >>Oki14:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>     Figured it out.  It was my settings in "settings", "Printing System."
> I had them set to "File."  When I changed them to "BSD-lpr", all was
> fixed.  I can print from Firefox, Open Office Write, and Gimp.
The only purpose for the printing system settings is to tell xfprint4
and xfprint-manager which backend uses, i don't see how firefox or
Openoffice use it (if so, i'm glad to know it)
> I was confused; I thought "BSD-lpr" stood from some backwards, legacy
> support or something.
> 
>     Idea: for boneheads, like myself, maybe change the wording in
> printing system from "BSD-lpr" to "BSD-lpr (Cups, LPRng)"
> 
the BSD-LPR backend is designed to work with lpr (BSD) but some other
packages (like CUPS and LPRng) offer a lpr interface more or less
compatible

>    I appreciate all the help everyone gave me!
> 
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
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Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
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