[17745] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape on irix uses ImageView which is incapable of printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Sun Apr 9 16:04:21 2000
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 16:04:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@mit.edu>
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I don't have a problem with that, but since I'm not an SGI user on a daily
basis, I'd want to ask some other people first. There may be some
overwhelming advantage to using imageview that I don't know about. Stay
tuned.
-Todd Belton
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> At one level, the bug is that ImageView can't print on athena -
> File->Print brings up an empty list of printers to choose from - but I
> don't hold much hope of that getting fixed, SGI is just being
> excessively clever. Instead, I'd like to suggest that netscape use xv
> instead; since infoagents irix netscape already depends on xanim from
> the graphics locker, this isn't that much of an additional dependency.
>
> (netscape is /mit/infoagents/arch/sgi_65/bin/netscape
> seen on steve-dallas which is 8.3.25 IRIX 6.5)
>
> _Mark_ <eichin@mit.edu>
> MIT Student Information Processing Board
>
