[wplug] default printers for firefox on linux

[Kevin Squire]

I know that I did not install Xprint, it just "came with" firefox thanks
to apt-get (or maybe aptitude -- I forget)  If it is no longer listed as
a dependency then great -- otherwise, you might see is show up again
after your next update.  I did not take the time to check myself.  It
just worked, and I had not given it another thought since I read your
post.





On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:18:02 -0500
John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:

> 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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