218501 - does not print.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188733

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hal Canary]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030730 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030730 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

W I try to print (ctrl-p), firebird 0.6 popped up this message:

	There was a problem printing. No Xprint server(s) could be found.
	Check whether the XPSERVERLIST environment variable contains any 
	valid Xprint servers.

I don't know what this means.  When I hit ctrl-p, firebird should output
postscript to lpr.  What is a Xprint server?




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David Schweiger]

> What is a Xprint server?

The documentation and FAQ at http://xprint.mozdev.org/ will explain this.

Comment 2

[David P James]

Dupe of 188733 as far as I'm concerned - user hasn't done anything wrong, we
just took no steps to ensure that an end user had the tools needed to print.

Hopefully this issue will settle down as Firebird makes it way into the
distributions, since dependency checking should sort it out.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188733 ***

Comment 3

[David P James]

See also bug 218096 and bug 135695 comment 17 since I think we should allow for
hooking into external print managers </rant>