Running F11 64-bit, with Firefox 3.5.3 64-bit. I'm no longer able to print to a printer from Firefox. The only option is print to file. Firefox does not show any of my defined printers, even though there are a number of lines in prefs.js related to my default printer.
I'm not sure when this happened in relation to FF versions, as I guess I don't print web pages that often. I think it probably occurred sometime during the 3.5x updates.
Other apps see the expected list of printers and are able to print to them.
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:49 -0400, Keith Hunt wrote:
Running F11 64-bit, with Firefox 3.5.3 64-bit. I'm no longer able to print to a printer from Firefox. The only option is print to file. Firefox does not show any of my defined printers, even though there are a number of lines in prefs.js related to my default printer.
...just a shot,
have you uninstalled gnome-packagekit? I did, and some weird dependency uninstalled system-config-printer, therefore could print pdf only. I had to reinstall it manually, pulling unwanted gnome-packagekit. Enabled printers, and everything work fine again.
Good luck. ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@padep.org.bo otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- Backup not found: A)bort, R)etry, M)assive heart failure?
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 12:07 -0400, NoSpaze wrote:
have you uninstalled gnome-packagekit? I did, and some weird dependency uninstalled system-config-printer, therefore could print pdf only. I had to reinstall it manually, pulling unwanted gnome-packagekit. Enabled printers, and everything work fine again.
The system-config-printer package is not required for printing, so this alone doesn't explain why printers are not visible in the print dialog.
FWIW, up-to-date Fedora 11 (with firefox-3.5.3-1.fc11) can see printers in its print dialog on a test installation here...
Tim. */
Tim Waugh wrote:
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 12:07 -0400, NoSpaze wrote:
have you uninstalled gnome-packagekit? I did, and some weird dependency uninstalled system-config-printer, therefore could print pdf only. I had to reinstall it manually, pulling unwanted gnome-packagekit. Enabled printers, and everything work fine again.
The system-config-printer package is not required for printing, so this alone doesn't explain why printers are not visible in the print dialog.
FWIW, up-to-date Fedora 11 (with firefox-3.5.3-1.fc11) can see printers in its print dialog on a test installation here...
Tim. */
I do not know for Fedora 11 but for fedora 10 (and many previous versions) we have to add lpr in the gtk-print-backends in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (this is not related only to firefox though) as in:
vanuatu-> more /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc gtk-theme-name = "Nodoka" gtk-icon-theme-name = "Fedora" gtk-print-backends = "lpr,file"
Hope this helps....
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Theodore Papadopoulo Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr wrote:
I do not know for Fedora 11 but for fedora 10 (and many previous versions) we have to add lpr in the gtk-print-backends in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (this is not related only to firefox though) as in:
vanuatu-> more /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc gtk-theme-name = "Nodoka" gtk-icon-theme-name = "Fedora" gtk-print-backends = "lpr,file"
Hope this helps....
Thanks, Theodore. This was somewhat helpful. After adding that line I now have two options: print to file and print to lpr. Printing to lpr does print to my default printer.
However, what I really want is for the list of available printers to show up like it does in other apps, and like it used to do in Firefox.
-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Keith Hunt keith.hunt@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Theodore Papadopoulo Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr wrote:
I do not know for Fedora 11 but for fedora 10 (and many previous versions) we have to add lpr in the gtk-print-backends in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (this is not related only to firefox though) as in:
vanuatu-> more /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc gtk-theme-name = "Nodoka" gtk-icon-theme-name = "Fedora" gtk-print-backends = "lpr,file"
Hope this helps....
Thanks, Theodore. This was somewhat helpful. After adding that line I now have two options: print to file and print to lpr. Printing to lpr does print to my default printer.
However, what I really want is for the list of available printers to show up like it does in other apps, and like it used to do in Firefox.
Adding this line in gtkrc appears to be a crude way to be able to print to the default printer but is certainly not a proper solution. I think the real problem is that Firefox is not conversing correctly with cups. I don't know if this is an issue with the cups libs or the gtk-2.0 libs. Any thoughts?
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Keith Hunt keith.hunt@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Keith Hunt keith.hunt@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Theodore Papadopoulo Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr wrote:
I do not know for Fedora 11 but for fedora 10 (and many previous versions) we have to add lpr in the gtk-print-backends in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (this is not related only to firefox though) as in:
vanuatu-> more /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc gtk-theme-name = "Nodoka" gtk-icon-theme-name = "Fedora" gtk-print-backends = "lpr,file"
Hope this helps....
Thanks, Theodore. This was somewhat helpful. After adding that line I now have two options: print to file and print to lpr. Printing to lpr does print to my default printer.
However, what I really want is for the list of available printers to show up like it does in other apps, and like it used to do in Firefox.
Adding this line in gtkrc appears to be a crude way to be able to print to the default printer but is certainly not a proper solution. I think the real problem is that Firefox is not conversing correctly with cups. I don't know if this is an issue with the cups libs or the gtk-2.0 libs. Any thoughts?
-- Keith
With help from others I seem to have found a solution. Something had changed my CUPS conf file and removed the line for listening on a socket interface. Adding that line back in resolved the problem I was having.
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 17:18 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 12:07 -0400, NoSpaze wrote:
have you uninstalled gnome-packagekit? I did, and some weird dependency uninstalled system-config-printer, therefore could print pdf only. I had to reinstall it manually, pulling unwanted gnome-packagekit. Enabled printers, and everything work fine again.
The system-config-printer package is not required for printing, so this alone doesn't explain why printers are not visible in the print dialog.
That was also my logic. But they do turn disabled after uninstall gnome-packagekit/reboot -altough visible, you are right at that point-. I could enable them only after reinstalling system-config-printer.
FWIW, up-to-date Fedora 11 (with firefox-3.5.3-1.fc11) can see printers in its print dialog on a test installation here...
Same here. Despite gnome-packagekit.
:) ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@padep.org.bo otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- "You are in a maze of twisted sysadmins, all different." -- Ben Aveling, in and about the scary.devil.monastery
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 14:01 -0400, NoSpaze wrote:
That was also my logic. But they do turn disabled after uninstall gnome-packagekit/reboot -altough visible, you are right at that point-. I could enable them only after reinstalling system-config-printer.
The print queues themselves are disabled, but visible in the Firefox print dialog?
So it isn't a Firefox-specific problem then?
A queue being "enabled" or "disabled" does not have anything to do with whether you can print to it -- that's "accepting"/"rejecting". "Enabled"/"disabled" is whether jobs submitted to the queue are being printed or just left in the queue.
Can you explain more what you mean when you say the queued "turn disabled...although visible"?
Tim. */
-
Keith Hunt -
NoSpaze -
Theodore Papadopoulo -
Tim Waugh