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Re: SuSE 9.2, Opera 8.51 and printing

Subject: Re: SuSE 9.2, Opera 8.51 and printing
From: Holger Graulich
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:30:16 +0100
Newsgroups: opera.linux
Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote:

> Holger Graulich <holger_graulich@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Markus Egg wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm using Opera 8.51 on a SuSE 9.2 Prof. system.
>>> Everythings works fine except printing with Opera. :(
>>> 
>>> I tried all the different solutions from the net and the knowledge base.
>>> cups printing does work, I tried with other programs.
>>> The solution with kprinter brings up the kprinter dialog but afterwards
>>> nothing happens.
>>> kprinter alone does work.
>>> 
>>> The solution with the script does not work either.
>>> 
>>> The knowledge base on the opera site writes something about
>>> "lpr" as Printer program (I tried with full path) and
>>> "-Plp0" as parameter: does not work.
>>> 
>>> Probably the problem is, because the printing dialog says
>>> "Host: Unknown location" in the line which is for the
>>> Cups printer? Where can I change that?
>>> 
>>> Any other pointers?
>>> 
>>> If all fails, I have to drop Opera and use some other browser,
>>> which would be bad... :(
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ME
>>
>>
>> Try the following:
>>
>> open the file "/usr/bin/opera"
>>
>> and search for the following 2 lines:
>>
>> JAVA_WORKAROUND=`${OPERA_BINARYDIR}/works 2>/dev/null` )
>>
>> IBMJAVA131_WORKAROUND=`${OPERA_BINARYDIR}/works 2>/dev/null` )
>>
>> after you found it, disable them with an "#" and try the printing again.
>>
>> #JAVA_WORKAROUND=`${OPERA_BINARYDIR}/works 2>/dev/null` )
>> # IBMJAVA131_WORKAROUND=`${OPERA_BINARYDIR}/works 2>/dev/null` )
>>
>>
>> That's the workaround, printing with opera is working on my suse 9.2
>> since opera 8.02
>>
> 
> 
> This fix should no longer be necessary with Opera 9.  If it is, we
> want to know about it.
> 
> eirik

I updated opera from 8.51 to 8.52 yesterday and tried to 

http://www.chefkoch.de/rezept-druck.php?ID=215651090245015&ID2=&druck=2309481a&divisor=10

today, without commenting the lines and it did not work.
After commenting the lines, printing is working again.

Holger



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