[PC-BSD Testing] SOLVED: Firefox 3 Printing with CUPS nicely

[Kris Moore]

I know lots of people have complained about how FireFox 3 removed CUPS 
printing support, and the "lpr" method was  pretty crummy at best, which 
didn't let you select different printers. I've come up with a solution 
here, which seems to work great for FireFox 3 and any other programs 
that make use of LPR. This will be included in 7.1 BETA1 and later.

Note: If you are trying this on 7.1-Alpha, we use a different port 
localbase for the PC-BSD ports. You will need to change all references 
to /usr/local to /PCBSD/local, and follow the directions listed in our 
Wiki before compiling gtklp
http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Working_with_FreeBSD_Ports

Instructions:

Install the port /usr/ports/print/gtklp

# cd /usr/ports/print/gtklp
# make install

Move the old lpr out of the way
# mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.old
# mv /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/local/bin/lpr.old

Make a small shell-script for lpr
# vi /usr/bin/lpr

/usr/bin/lpr
-----
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/gtklp "$@"
-----

# chmod 755 /usr/bin/lpr

Thats it! Now when you print in FF3, select "lpr" as normal. and the 
gtklp dialog will popup, and let you set which printer, papersize and 
other features you wish.


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Kris Moore