Browser Support

In order to print out a map to the location where the pager message references, you require a web browser that can print out on the commandline.

Only Mozilla Firefox is supported at this time.

Mozilla Firefox + cmdlnprint (firefox)

In order to use the Firefox plugin, you need to set [pagerprinter].``browser`` to firefox, and [pagerprinter].``browser-exec`` to the full path of Mozilla Firefox binary (or just firefox if it is in your PATH:

[pagerprinter]
browser = firefox

; On Linux, do this:
browser-exec = firefox

; On Mac OS X, you'll want something like this:
browser-exec = /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin

; On Windows, you'll want something like this:
browser-exec = C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe

; You may optionally specify a printer name.  If it is not specified, it
; will use the system default printer.  On CUPS-based printing systems,
; this is the printer's short name.  On Windows this is the full printer
; name.
printer = Father DeskLaser 934TXS

; You can also print multiple copies.  By default only 1 is printed.
print-copies = 1

You’ll then need to install the cmdlnprint extension in Firefox. This only works on upto Firefox v3.6, so you may want to download the old version of Firefox from PortableApps and configure pagerprinter to use this, which should work. You shouldn’t use the old version of Firefox for anything else due to security issues.

There one tweakable option, the browser-wait setting. This controls how many seconds to wait for the map to load before printing it out.

Disabling printing maps (test)

You can disable printing maps by setting browser to test:

[pagerprinter]
browser = test

Instead of printing the maps, it will send the URI for the map to stdout.