[olpc-help] community-support Digest, Vol 2, Issue 33

[Greg Smith (gregmsmi)]

Hi Martha,

On the question of printing there has been a little investigation done
on that. 

The documentation is at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_CUPS

There have also been requests for printing from developing countries so
I think its something we should work on. Let us know how it works for
you. The Wiki documentation shows how to print over the network but I
think printing to a USB printer would also be useful. Edit the wiki or
reply here with your experience or further questions.

Thanks,

Greg S

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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:31:54 +0000
From: "marza" <community-support at lists.laptop.org>
Subject: [olpc-help] Problems with text on cllpboard & question about
	printing.
To: community-support at lists.laptop.org
Message-ID: <1199831514.m2f.8829 at olpc.osuosl.org>


Hey, thanks to everyone who contributes here.

Overall, my OLPC has been a lot of fun. Wireless has worked fine
everywhere I've used it, I added a USB mouse,USB flash drive and an SD
card w/o major  problems and I'm even getting used to typing on the
keyboard.

The problem I'm having is moving text between activities. If I copy some
text from a web page onto the side bar end then open it in write, I end
up getting garbage (where garbage = some of the letters of the original
text and lots of question marks) and I can't drag or open it anywhere
else. 

If I copy some text in write, I can open it in a new write window, but I
can't drag it into, for example, the text box when I'm composing an
email in the web version of gmail or into this text box (just tried). Am
I missing something obvious here?

Also, as to printing, I understand why printing is a low priority for
the target users of the OLPC, and I totally respect the development
priorities there. That said, I was wondering if anyone had fooled around
with creating/installing a printer driver that works with Sugar. I don't
need a spiffy UI; I'd be fine with something that required me to save a
file and then print from the command line. Anyone? I'm willing to
experiment - I already have a rescue USB flash drive in case it's a
disasterous fail, but I'd be happier trying it with something I thought
at least might work. 


Thanks,
Martha