From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5571387B1 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1771CE08F4; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0679E08B8 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F06134039E for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:12:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.277 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.277 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.324, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WMoFHN5WePB9 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64499340327 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XfVg0-0008HO-65 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:12:16 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:12:16 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:12:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to set up HP printer with foo2zjs Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20141017235056.GA4104@kern.lan> <20141018120228.GC4104@kern.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1) X-Archives-Salt: 25821808-0194-4847-ae93-6ed6d8843a59 X-Archives-Hash: 30f612bfd6f8ea4b02c3ffff9d7d3c0a Frank Steinmetzger gmx.de> writes: > > cups + hplip is pretty robust. > Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE can > use, I don’t need (or want) another tool that does the same job and that > has a lot of GUI stuff that my printer doesn’t support anyway (scanners > and such). hey, I run LXDE, and as folks know, I am a minimalist, despite have several machines with 8 core, 32 gigs of ram..... So you have compiled these before, with a minimum of flags activated? The know the number of flags, the smaller the binaries..... (as you know). > Furthermore, it installs a tool which I don’t need and pollutes my tray > and which has no off-switch. Tries to deactivate it in the past had not > succeeded (as I said, non-technical reasons). Ah, kde frustration? Been there, left that constant_change environment. Personally, I would not use kde as part of my printing solution. Cups + hplip work fine without kde involvement. > Also, with every update it wants to download the proprietary plugin anew > (which I had trouble with in the past b/c I did offline updates) or else > no printo worko. OK, so mask the offending codes? > Lastly, this plugin installation doesn’t work if system python was not > version 2, so every time I had to eselect python 2, install hplip, and > switch back again. Weird. I have python 3.3 set and it is fine? Ok, set hplip to use the latest (stable) version of python 2.x only. > You may certainly call me backward minded, but it worked in the past[TM] > without hplip, and I would like that again. Frank, I would not call you this. I enjoy running minimal systems too. Did you have a ppd file setup via cups? (/etc/cups/ppd) YOu mave have a copy of the old ppd config file in the cups/ppd dir? There are a myriad of ways to set up printing. It is your choice. If you go with somethhing nobody knows about, your most likely will be 'alone', imho. What is your computer-printer interface? (usb/eth/par/ser/rf)? Do have sys-apps/hwids installed? With hplip, I only set these flags: X hpcups libnotify, but my printer is ethernet. On a side note, you may want to try lxqt-0.8.0 in a few weeks, when it is released..... James