[X2go-Dev] Printing-related question for Windows X2go client users

Stefan Baur newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de
Sat Dec 10 17:43:21 CET 2011


John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
> <snip>
> I admit I just scanned through your response (deadlines :( ) but I think
> that is the way X2Go printing is working.  The x2go cups driver is
> converting to pdf and sending the pdf to the client.  In the Linux and
> Mac clients, we can print directly to the printer but, in the Windows
> client, it always opens the default PDF reader no matter which printer
> one chooses.  That's why I assumed you were talking about replacing
> Acrobat as the default PDF reader, i.e., because as far as I know,
> that's what the x2go client prints to - the default PDF reader - John

Nope, the Windows X2go client offers an option where you can specify a 
print command and optional parameters - kind of like the print dialog in 
Adobe Reader for Linux does (like, if you want to bypass the default 
print environment and use rlpr, for example).

Kind Regards,
Stefan



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