Can't Print
Submitted by on Thursday, 27 November, 2008 - 15:53
Hello,
My knowledge is weak in the areas I am discussing, so please be patient.
I am running jedit under ubuntu 8.10. I have set my printer up with cups and it works well when I use lp to print. jedit won't print (fails silently). lpr doesn't work either. Helped by error messages that jedit produced when I tried to print prior to having installed lpr, I have concluded that:
1. jedit is using lpr
2. lpr is failing because I don't have an entry for my printer in termcap
Are these reasonable conclusions? Can I tell jedit to use lp instead of lpr? (I would prefer not to have to maintain printer definitions in both termcap and cups).
Thanks very much for your help.
-subuta
My knowledge is weak in the areas I am discussing, so please be patient.
I am running jedit under ubuntu 8.10. I have set my printer up with cups and it works well when I use lp to print. jedit won't print (fails silently). lpr doesn't work either. Helped by error messages that jedit produced when I tried to print prior to having installed lpr, I have concluded that:
1. jedit is using lpr
2. lpr is failing because I don't have an entry for my printer in termcap
Are these reasonable conclusions? Can I tell jedit to use lp instead of lpr? (I would prefer not to have to maintain printer definitions in both termcap and cups).
Thanks very much for your help.
-subuta
