On Wed 13 Jul 2022 09:58:02 PM CDT, Richard Brown wrote:
On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 14:51 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On 2022-07-13 13:37, Axel Braun wrote (excerpts):
Beside this we takled about issues with hplip in flatpak world, printing subsystem cups vs driverless. ... Seems like there is a common topic of accessing devices from flatpak app
Only FYI: See
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2022/#flatpak-and-pri...
I have zero personal experience with Flatpak or Snap or any other non-RPM packaging format.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
I can let you know there is no generic issue with flatpaks and printing.
I do it every day.
The MicroOS desktop (GNOME) ships with the same regular RPM print stack you lovingly maintain, and it works great when recieving jobs from apps run as Flatpaks.
Regards,
Richard
Hi Yes, the issue for me is the NonFree plugin (normally installed by the user and root) containing a firmware tarball and library as well as touching a hplip.state file in /var/lib/hp. I cobbled together a quick and dirty rpm for my HP Laserjet 1102w.... -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) Tumbleweed 20220711 | GNOME Shell 42.3.1 | 5.18.9-2-default HP Z440 | Xeon E5-2690 V3 X24 @ 2.60GHz | AMD RX550/Nvidia Quadro T400 up 2 days 1:21, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 0.70, 0.34