14 Nov 05:18
Passthrough-printing in gnome-terminal
From: Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm <at> prime.gushi.org>
Subject: Passthrough-printing in gnome-terminal
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnome.general
Date: 2008-11-14 04:20:46 GMT
Subject: Passthrough-printing in gnome-terminal
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnome.general
Date: 2008-11-14 04:20:46 GMT
Hello, I've been looking around for an answer to this feature -- in a few cases I found a user who asked this question but who had his answers closed out on him rather than being taken as a bug report (or a feature request). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/155935 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/234518 As I've got some English skills, I'll pose it. I'd like to get passthrough-printing working in Gnome-terminal. I'm using whatever version of Gnome is installed in the latest as of this time (11/13/2008) version of Ubuntu (which includes GNOME Terminal 2.24.1.1). For those unaware, Passthrough Printing is a neat ability of terminal emulation applications to send a "printer on" and "printer off" ANSI escape code. It's found in most terminal emulators, up to and including Putty, SecureCRT, VtyNet, as well I believe as "xterm" and a few others. I'm more than willing to help contribute my experience getting this to work on other platforms. If there's an alternate terminal app I could be using, please let me know what it is. Xterm just isn't configurable enough and resizable enough (I can resize an xterm but I can't tweak the other options easily, such as font size or colors) to work for me. This is probably a fairly easy feature to add, for what it's worth...just buffer when you see those escape codes, and chunk it to a print dialog.(Continue reading)
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