No provision for printing pictures under Lubuntu 14.04?

Andre Campos Rodovalho andre.rodovalho at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 21:26:04 UTC 2015


Yes, I use fotoxx for both. There is a outdated version on repositories...
The new version is available at: http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx.html



2015-04-06 11:47 GMT-03:00 John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com>:

>  In 14.04 you use fotoxx for both photo management and picture printing?
> But it is not in the repos, right?
>
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> On 4/6/2015 9:52 AM, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote:
>
> With LxQt I hope we have kolourpaint as default. So we will be able to
> print images easily. Maybe the default image viewer will do that too.
> In 14.04 I use fotoxx to do it.
>
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> 2015-04-05 23:23 GMT-03:00 Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>:
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>> Seems like it's not a bug, per se. Intended function upstream, it seems.
>> What is the default print command? Does `lpr` work? I often use this on the
>> command line to print PDFs, so it seems plausible. This may be something we
>> can fix in the default settings of MtPaint, if we explore all of the
>> possible options and hopefully find the one that uses the least amount of
>> resources. Since `lpr` is included in the standard system, this would seem
>> to make the most sense.
>>  On Apr 5, 2015 5:15 PM, "John Hupp" <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Visiting family this weekend and looking at a couple problems, I
>>> discovered that under the default installation of Lubuntu 14.04 there seems
>>> to be no provision for printing pictures.
>>>
>>> The image viewer has no Print option.  And when I instead opened a
>>> picture in mtPaint and then tried File: Action: Print Image, nothing
>>> happened.
>>>
>>> I got mtPaint's File: Action: Print Image functionality working by
>>> following the 'How to Print' section of this Puppy Linux article:
>>> http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingMtPaint
>>>
>>> I also found that I could print using Firefox, but I would have expected
>>> to be able to print a pic via the image viewer or the paint program.
>>>
>>> It seems like more than a trivial omission to have no default picture
>>> printing provision.
>>>
>>> [I had a similar realization recently regarding photo management.  I
>>> installed Shotwell to add that capability, but it seemed like there should
>>> have been a native provision.]
>>>
>>> How do you handle these things?
>>>
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