printing from Puppy 4.2.1
Posted: Tue 12 May 2009, 23:22
I just upgraded to Puppy 4.2.1. and successfully installed my Lexmark E312 laser printer using CUPS. Now I can not print from some of my apps. I CAN print from Inkscape, any of the OpenOffice apps, Abiword, Seamonkey, and GIMP (if I use Print with Gutenburg).
I cannot print from Geany or Leafpad no matter what I do. And I can print from MTPaint if I set the printer to /usr/bin/lpr %f, but I get no interface -- just direct to printer (I think that is correct when using the command line?).
When I ask Geany, Leafpad, or GIMP to print, I get a screen that offers only the 'Print to file' option. With Geany, if I set the 'Use an external command for printing' to the default /usr/bin/lpr %f (that works with MTPaint), nothing at all happens. I can find no way to alter whatever Leafpad tries to do.
When I run these same apps directly from my earlier Puppy 4.2 CD, the 'Print to file' option initially shows up, but a split second later my laser printer is added as the default.
What is going on and how do I fix it.
Edit: just went back and checked all this again with a clean Puppy 4.2.1 CD => pfix=ram and got same results as with the upgrade.
I cannot print from Geany or Leafpad no matter what I do. And I can print from MTPaint if I set the printer to /usr/bin/lpr %f, but I get no interface -- just direct to printer (I think that is correct when using the command line?).
When I ask Geany, Leafpad, or GIMP to print, I get a screen that offers only the 'Print to file' option. With Geany, if I set the 'Use an external command for printing' to the default /usr/bin/lpr %f (that works with MTPaint), nothing at all happens. I can find no way to alter whatever Leafpad tries to do.
When I run these same apps directly from my earlier Puppy 4.2 CD, the 'Print to file' option initially shows up, but a split second later my laser printer is added as the default.
What is going on and how do I fix it.
Edit: just went back and checked all this again with a clean Puppy 4.2.1 CD => pfix=ram and got same results as with the upgrade.