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From: roundyz@×××××××.ru
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:10:20
Message-Id: 20100224150101.GA8391@Lister
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 >>
4 >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Helmut Jarausch
5 >> <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
6 >> > On 23 Feb, Mark Knecht wrote:
7 >> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >> >>> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
9 >> >>>>
10 >> >>>> Hi,
11 >> >>>> ?? ??I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office
12 >> >>>> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and
13 >> >>>> Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print
14 >> >>>> to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only
15 >> >>>> the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name
16 >> >>>> "HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5".
17 >> >>>
18 >> >
19 >> > Just one note,
20 >> > are you using a binary version of firefox, etc, on a 64 bit machine?
21 >> > I had the same problem here.
22 >> > This was easily solved by replacing the binary version by the native
23 >> > (freshly compiled) version here.
24 >> > Helmut.
25 >> >
26 >> > --
27 >> > Helmut Jarausch
28 >>
29 >> Thanks but no. In fact the one binary thing on the system that comes
30 >> to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff
31 >> I'm building that isn't!
32 >>
33 >> - Mark
34 >>
35 >>
36 Hello,
37
38 Is this anything to do with GTK? I have the same problem, in cups it is
39 fine, but say something like xpdf or firefox and only the print lpr is
40 there.
41
42
43 --
44 Regards,
45 Roundyz