Printing from X11 Applications
Different X11 applications will have different means of printing, but most behave more or less the way you’d expect from any desktop application, as long as you’ve got the lpr subsystem working properly. In most cases, an application will simply present a “Generic Printer” option for printer output, pointing to an lpr command line similar to what you’d use if you were sending a file to the printer on the command line. Applications’ print dialogs will vary, but because printing web pages is a fairly common task, here is an example of printing from Firefox.
To print a page you’re viewing in Firefox, select File and then choose Print from the menu. The Print dialog box is shown in Figure 17.1.
Figure 17.1. The Print ...
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