[20053] in Athena Bugs
printing from xess
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Dec 6 18:35:21 2001
Message-Id: <200112062335.SAA30288@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: namiko@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:35:20 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Namiko:
I figured out why xess wasn't printing for you; to make it print, go
back to the print dialogue, click on "printer options" and make the box
that says "print command" contain "lpr %s" instead of just "lpr".
Bugs:
It seems to be possible for users to accidentally get xess configs that
don't have something set for "print command". This results in printing
silently failing.
Further confusing things, if you put just 'lpr' in there, it doesn't
work either; the %s is necessary.
This is reproduceable on an Athena sun, though the configs I get have
the print command set correctly.
-Camilla
