Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

[roundyz@hotmail.ru]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Helmut Jarausch
>> <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> > On 23 Feb, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi,
>> >>>> ?? ??I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office
>> >>>> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and
>> >>>> Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print
>> >>>> to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only
>> >>>> the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name
>> >>>> "HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5".
>> >>>
>> >
>> > Just one note,
>> > are you using a binary version of firefox, etc, on a 64 bit machine?
>> > I had the same problem here.
>> > This was easily solved by replacing the binary version by the native
>> > (freshly compiled) version here.
>> > Helmut.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Helmut Jarausch
>> 
>> Thanks but no. In fact the one binary thing on the system that comes
>> to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff
>> I'm building that isn't!
>> 
>> - Mark
>> 
>> 
Hello,

Is this anything to do with GTK? I have the same problem, in cups it is
fine, but say something like xpdf or firefox and only the print lpr is
there.


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Roundyz