Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 16:23:21 -0500 From: Stephen Gunn <stephen@dreamaway.org> To: gecko@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: firefox-60.0_2,1 missing 'Print to LPR' Message-ID: <f3a5514e-6c34-7227-8705-7112f6a20a74@dreamaway.org>
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Hi, First, thank you for maintaining this port. I'm running Firefox 60.0_2,1 on 11.1-RELEASE-p10. In the print dialog, the option 'Print to LPR' no longer shows up, only 'Print to File'. If I install firefox-esr, then 'Print to LPR' is again present. I strongly suspect it's related to a switch to gtk-3.0 in the most recent versions of Firefox. I think gtk3 by default expects CUPS printing, but I'm using LPD. There is supposed to be a way to specify that you still want printing in the gtk3 settings.ini file, by setting gtk-print-backends = "lpr, file", but it doesn't work. I looked, and on my machine, gtk print backend libraries are installed in /usr/local/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends, so it seems like it should work, yet it does not. I believe this will be an issue for any application that uses gtk3, where printing is done with native LPD and not CUPS. I also started up a thread in the forums, and I'm not the only one seeing the issue. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/no-print-to-lpr-in-firefox-print-dialog.65805/ Thanks again, Stephen
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