[OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

[Gary Mills]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:42:21PM -0500, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> 
> What does
> 
> 	pkg list | egrep -i print
> 
> output?

Your suggestion gave me a clue.  I did some reading to fill in the
blanks.  The print dialogue window in firefox, and in a few other
applications, is actually produced by GTK.  What it displays is
controlled by shared libraries in:

    /usr/lib/amd64/gtk-*/*/printbackends
    /usr/lib/gtk-*/*/printbackends

This directory only contained libprintbackend-file.so .  The packages:

    library/desktop/gtk2/gtk-backend-cups
    library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cups

were not installed.  These packages deliver libprintbackend-cups.so .
Once I installed these two packages, the firefox print dialogue showed
my CUPS print queue.

I expect that other people will encounter this same problem.  To
prevent that, these two packages should be installed with GTK or CUPS,
probably with CUPS.


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