[wplug] default printers for firefox on linux

[John Harrold]

Sometime in January Kevin Squire assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| This has to do with the Xprint service that the Mozilla family are all
| using.  I found that by stoping the Xprint service, the @:64 stuff were
| all gone, and everything still printed fine.  In fact, my 4 @:64
| printers were printing everything wrong.  It increased the size of
| EVERYTHING.  I printed out the google front page as a test, and about
| half way down the page, up against the right hand margin was the "GOO"
| and nothing else.

I had this problem also. I thought it might have been related to the fact
that the default paper size was A4, but I wasn't really sure.

| In debian I just did (as root) 
| 	/etc/init.d/xprint stop
| Then to make it perminate (again as root) 
| 	update-rc.d -f xprint remove   

That works for me.
  
| If anyone knows why I sould NOT have done this, or have a better
| solution - I am open to it. :-)

A similar question: Is there anything wrong with uninstalling  xprt-common
and xprt-xprintorg? There doesn't appear to be anything depending on either
package.

| > Also is it possible to specify the default printer arbitrarily?

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks Kevin.

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