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Sylvander

I notice that when I'm online with Firefox, and want to print a page...
I must first print to a file...
Then open the file and send to the printer from there. Confused

Is it possible to send directly to the printer? Very Happy

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 09:55 Post subject:

Which version of Puppy are you using? Are you using its original CUPS or have you done an upgrade?

Is Firefox the only program that behaves this way?

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 10:24 Post subject:

Using BoxPup-413-k2.6.25.16

CUPS-1.3.11-i486
Its an upgrade; behaved even worse originally, couldn't set it up.
I upgraded boxpup from an earlier version and that was a bit of a mess...
Needed to clean up duplicates in the menu.

Firefox is the only thing I've noticed doing this; don't do much printing yet.
Can you suggest an experiment with something else?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 11:03 Post subject:

Try printing from Gnumeric. If you have the same problem, I can suggest a solution.

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 11:30 Post subject:

Gnumeric also offers only "Print to file". Sad

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 11:33 Post subject:

Go here and read the section titled "Printing from Applications." Then install the setdefprn-1.0.pet.

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 13:07 Post subject:

Followed your instructions. Very Happy

Installing setdefprn-1.0.pet cause multiple problems. Sad

e.g. Network Connection: ETH0 disabled [red warning over it].
Various icons in the menu not available [e.g. Logout].

Uninstalled the program, but that didn't improve matters.
SO...
Ran a 2nd Puppy [Lighthouse-4.43f], and used Xfe to delete the contents of sda3 [BoxPup partition], then copy over a recent [made a few hours ago] snap2 snapshot of [the contents of] sda3.

All now back as it was prior to the install.

Where to go from here? Confused

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 13:18 Post subject:

I'm not familiar with Boxpup's window manager, but it sounds like it had trouble installing the menu entry supplied by setdefprn.

However, you should only need one key file from the PET package. Download the PET and rename it as a .TGZ package. Then extract it.

Inside, you should see a folder named "root". Inside that folder is a hidden file named ".gtkrc.mine". Copy this file to your own root folder.

Try to print again. If that still doesn't work, I'll download a copy of Boxpup and have a look.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 15:09 Post subject:

[Update]
Boxpup already has the file /root/.gtkrc.mine. So open it in a text editor and add the line

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 16:04 Post subject:

Followed your instructions...

"Print to LPR" now included, and prints direct to the default printer [the only connected printer].

Is there a way to bring up the control window for the printer?
It's printing page-after-page and I don't know how to stop it. Confused

An unresponsive script is being reported, and I told it to STOP, but still the printer is printing!

Used HTOP to KILL a likely looking process, and that appears to have stopped the printer.
Will now use "Ctrl+Alt+backspace" and xwin.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 16:07 Post subject:

Start your web browser and go to localhost:631.

Open the Jobs tab and delete the old jobs that are queued up.

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 16:12 Post subject:

It shows "No jobs".

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 16:14 Post subject:

Reboot your computer. That will restart CUPS.

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 16:19 Post subject:

Done.

All now looks good.

Thank goodness some wizard knows all this magic. Very Happy

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 03 Apr 2010, 16:41 Post subject:

Excellent. I suspect that your initial install of CUPS 1.3.11 caused problems because it also tries to install a menu item.