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Re: URGENT: Users can't print from Firefox 3 on 9.4.51
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Jan 13 11:48:17 2009
Cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:47:32 -0500
On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Actually, this is only on Linux.
>
> On Suns (presumable because libgnomeprint on Suns does not know
> about CUPS), users see a "Print to LPR" entry in the printer dialog.
>
Various websites suggest that adding the following to the system-wide
gtkrc will solve the problem:
gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr"
However, I could not get that to work for me (either with /etc/gtk-2.0/
gtkrc or /etc/athena/gtk-2.0/gtkrc).
-Jon
