Re: gtk2+ print problem

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:54:18 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> 
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> writes:
> 
> > When I try to print from gtk2+ applications, including quite
> > specifically firefox3 and evince, I'm not given the option to print
> > to lpr, only to a file.  There's nothing about printing in
> > my .gtkrc-2.0 file (though there might have been such a restriction
> > a few weeks ago, as part of the effort to make firefox3 print),
> > gtk2+ was freshly recompiled with the cups option, cups is running
> > and working, /usr/pkg/bin/lpr is in my path (and /usr/bin/lpr is
> > mode 0, as on my other machines), I see no strange variables in my
> > environment, etc.
> 
> I wonder if the gtk folks think you should have cups, and there is no
> direct lpr support.
> 
I do have cups, installed and working; as I noted, I did specify that
option to gtk2+ when building.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb