[nflug] Selecting a printer in Firefox 1.07 & 1.5

[Cyber Source]

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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