Firefox printing

[Xandros Pilosa]

Alain Muls pravi:
> Hi,
>
> I use firefox v3.05b with Ubuntu HH 8.04 LTS.
> If I print, firefox uses the default printer. But since this is 
> different at home and at work, I have to change it manually. Firefox 
> never shows me a selection for the printer to send his out put to? Any 
> suggestions
>
> Tx/Alain
Hello Alain,

sorry, but I cannot reproduce your problem as the print dialogue window 
shows in my installation ok, thus I can give you just some hints.
If  you have the dialogue window in other applications  (like ooffice ), 
then you can check that plug-in libunixprintplugin.so is correctly 
installed.
In firefox type in the adrress bar:
about:plugins
and check, if "Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux" is enabled. It is a 
part of xulrunner-1.9 package in hardy-updates repository.

Furthermore you can check configuration settings in firefox with:
about:config
in the address bar and filter options by "print" in filter box at the top.
Here are some examples from my settings, wit clean (not upgraded form 
FF2) profile, that could be relevant for you, from top to bottom of 
displayed options:

print.postscript.print_command;                     lpr 
${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+-P"$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME"}
print.print_command;                                      lpr 
${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+-P"$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME"}
and also for each printer separately e.g.:
print.printer_efax-gtk.print_command;             lpr 
${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+-P"$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME"}
print.printer_PDF.print_command;                   lpr 
${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+-P"$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME"}

print.printer_list;   -_has no value set - it is empty-_

print.use_native_print_dialog;                   false

You can edit values with double click or by right clicking the row.
Please be sure, _to backup_ your prefs.js file in your profile folder or 
that folder itself, before you make any changes to your preferences file.

Good luck!