Re: Firefox 3.5.3 can only print to file.

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Keith Hunt <keith.hunt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Theodore Papadopoulo
> <Theodore.Papadopoulo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> I do not know for Fedora 11 but for fedora 10 (and many previous versions)
>> we have to
>> add lpr in the gtk-print-backends in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (this is not related
>> only to firefox though)
>> as in:
>>
>> vanuatu-> more /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
>> gtk-theme-name = "Nodoka"
>> gtk-icon-theme-name = "Fedora"
>> gtk-print-backends = "lpr,file"
>>
>> Hope this helps....
>
> Thanks, Theodore. This was somewhat helpful. After adding that line I
> now have two options: print to file and print to lpr. Printing to lpr
> does print to my default printer.
>
> However, what I really want is for the list of available printers to
> show up like it does in other apps, and like it used to do in Firefox.
>

Adding this line in gtkrc appears to be a crude way to be able to
print to the default printer but is certainly not a proper solution. I
think the real problem is that Firefox is not conversing correctly
with cups. I don't know if this is an issue with the cups libs or the
gtk-2.0 libs. Any thoughts?



-- 
Keith

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