[nflug] Selecting a printer in Firefox 1.07 & 1.5

[Joe]

See my post that crossed yours in the mail.

Obviously, one could write a script called lp and put it in the path 
ahead of /usr/bin (or wherever lp lives), and in it call your own 
script/program and eventually reference the real lp by a full path to 
avoid a recursive loop, but that might cause problems for other programs 
unless you did it very carefully.

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:

> I am curious about this as well because I like a little app called 
> gtklp. It allows me all sorts of configs to the printer and it works 
> fine because I actually made all calls to lp go to gtklp, interception 
> made! However, apps that print directly to cups, including now new 
> Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5. The question would be, how would one 
> intercept cups files? For lp, it was /usr/bin/lp, etc..
>
> Joe wrote:
>
>> I figured out part of it, but it still doesn't work.
>> In Firefox, I go to about:config
>> In there, I changed everything (about 4 places) that mentioned lpr to 
>> dplx.
>> My changes persisted, but the printing still does not access my 
>> script.  I made sure to exit and restart Firefox because I assumed 
>> that prefs.js only gets read at startup.
>>
>> Joe wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.  I do almost all my printing through my duplex package (shell 
>>> scripts).  Most applications let me specify a program to print - 
>>> like lp, or in my case, dplx.  Firefox only shows me the printers I 
>>> have defined to cups - none of which use my script.
>>>
>>> How do I get Firefox to let me print to my script?
>>>
>>> (I know I can print to file and then use the script, but I don't 
>>> always want to do that.)
>>>
>>> I had a look at the cups user manual, but didn't see anything 
>>> obvious about how to add a filter, etc. for my scripts.
>>>
>>> I am using mandrake 9.1, HP 895Cse, hpijs driver.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>
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