Actually, Carlos gave me the clue to a prepared binary RPM for efax, and that is already installed; nota bene, I did not say it is usable. I have spent a good part of the day trying to understand why it remains in "Inactive" state, presumably connected with the error message that comes up when one presses the "Standby" button. Here is its most recent text:
***** efax-09a 17.34.22 Error: can't open pre-lock file /var/lock/ TMP 13605 permission denied
efax-09a 17.34.22 finished - unrecoverable error *****
The installation did not create file with that name, so I tried to help it by making one myself, and making it writable for anybody. Didn't help. I have no idea whatever what the program wants from me. Perhaps the developer doesn't either, since he doesn't treat it in his very friendly, but only moderately helpful "help".
Hello: Have you read my mail in which I gave a point-by-point description how to build/install efax-gtk? http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-02/msg01440.html 4-8 points are dealing with configuration explicitly. Follow those instructions and report the result, please.
1) I understood that the program is capable of providing a virtual printer, so that one can print from an application. I don't know how to do this, and it is nowhere mentioned, as far as I could see. I assume that a driver for it would have to pipe content through ghostscript to efax-gtk, but that is the limit of my guessing.
That is explained in the manual/help if you read it carefully. After having created a 'faxprinter' printer on your system, from any application you can chosse that printer as the printer device. This printer forwards the job to efax-gtk. Efax-gtk receives the print request only if in its gui window at the "fax entry method" "socket" is checked. Otherwise you can choose a postrcipt file to send as a fax clicking either the "single file" or "multiple files" button. IG Február 15. az ADÓBEVALLÁS első határideje. Tanácsok, határidők, KALKULÁTOROK, minden az adózásról az adózóna.hu oldalon!http://ad.adverticum.net/b/cl,1,6022,247461,293803/click.prm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org