Re: printing with firefox3?

[Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost>]

It seems firefox3 does not have a cups option.

Maybe the run-time CUPS support should always be disabled,
and let the gtk print dialog determine the appropriate printers ?

Yorick Hardy wrote:
> I think the problem might be here:
>
>  http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox/source/gfx/src/psshared/nsCUPSShim.cpp
>
> which seems to load libcups.so.2 whenever it is available.
>
> I have not checked under what conditions the file gets compiled, but it
> appears the most likely candidate for the trouble.
>
> Line 82 of
>
>  http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox/source/toolkit/library/libxul-rules.mk
>
> also explicitly links to cups, but I don't think that is the problem.
>
> Are the attached (untested) patches the right way to go ?
>
> Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:18:51AM +0200, Yorick Hardy wrote:
> > > You probably need to edit your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and add
> > >
> > >  gtk-print-backends="lpr,file"
> > >
> > > as described here
> > >
> > >  http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-print-backends 
> > >
> > >
> > > I am guessing this is the machine with the cups option enabled ?
> > >
> > > Do you happen to have a core dump from one of the other machines (and 
> > > "thread apply all bt") ?
> >
> > See my mail with such a trace, where gtk is not build with cups.
> >
> > The page you mentioned above says that the default gtk-print-backends 
> > is "file,cups".
> >
> > Looks like something is not working correctly and the default is still 
> > "file,cups" if cups
> > is not enabled during build.
> >
> > Bernd


--
Kind regards,

Yorick Hardy

--- gfx/src/psshared/nsCUPSShim.cpp.orig        2009-01-20 18:02:07.000000000 
+0200
+++ gfx/src/psshared/nsCUPSShim.cpp     2009-01-20 18:03:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 PRBool
 nsCUPSShim::Init()
 {
+    return PR_FALSE;
     mCupsLib = PR_LoadLibrary("libcups.so.2");
     if (!mCupsLib)
         return PR_FALSE;