Fox prints

[unixronin]

Hacking the preferences for Firefox on Windows to add or change printers turns out to be trivially simple.  However, I've had no success trying to accomplish the same task for Firefox on Linux, which seems to recognize only the printer "PostScript/default".  Does anyone have any pointers on how to configure Firefox for Linux to have multiple printers defined, so I can just select the printer I want instead of having to go change the print command in the printer properties every time I want to switch printers?  It's getting to be quite an annoyance, particularly since my two printers function best with very different preference settings (some of which can apparently be tuned only by hand-editing prefs.js).

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I use KDE, and this only works there, Change the command called by the print function to 'kprinter'.

printers

[felinecanine.livejournal.com]

Hm, that's strange. In my firefox setup, it seems to already know what printers I have defined. That is, if I hit the print button (File->Print or Ctrl-P), I get a menu which shows my available printers available via CUPS (CUPS/hplaser, CUPS/hp722, CUPS/fax, Postscript/default). I don't recall doing anything special for this to work.

This is with firefox/1.5.0.4.

Re: printers

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Possibly that only works with CUPS?

Re: printers

[felinecanine.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I guess I assumed you were using CUPS also. Is there any reason that you don't?

Re: printers

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Just that lprng has always Just Worked, I guess.

Re: printers

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

su -
lprng restart

Re: printers

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but can you remember the last time you had to do that? IIRC, I found some time ago the reason we had to do that on llioness was that something I'd overlooked was starting classic lpd first and fouling up lprng. When I took out the duplicate invocation, the problem went away.

Re: printers

[genuine-snark.livejournal.com]

Looks like you might have found the first thing where lprng doesn't Just Work. :) Maybe it's time for CUPS...

Re: printers

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Generally.... lprng does Just Work. Except on llioness. And generally only on llioness when I've just rebooted. When that happens I have to lprng restart.