[27288] in Athena Bugs
Printing a non-duplex job with .generation 1 dotfiles?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Feb 19 23:02:06 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:00:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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New Athena users (who have .generation set to 1) automatically get
LPROPT=-Zduplex set in the environment. This frustrates all attempts to
print a non-duplex job from gpdf, the default PDF viewer.
* The standard GNOME printing dialog has a checkbox labeled “Duplex” that
is checked by default. Unchecking this box has no effect; the job is
still printed duplex.
* Changing the Location from lpr to Custom reveals a text field with
contents “lpr”. One might expect to be able to change this to “lpr
-Zsimplex” or something. In reality, I cannot seem to successfully
queue a job at all with Location set to Custom, whether or not I add
options to the command.
* Closing gpdf, running “unset LPROPT” in a terminal, and running gpdf
again from that terminal, and then unchecking the gpdf “Duplex” box,
still has no effect. The job is still printed duplex.
By this point, the poor user had long since lost interest, but I debugged
this myself for a little while, and was unable to find a way to print a
non-duplex job from gpdf short of removing the .generation file and
logging in again.
Anders
