08-22-2008, 08:47 AM
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 Re: Obsoleteness of X concept
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>>>Your example of being able to print at home is one that resonates with
>>>me -- except that I've got two desktops and two laptops at home, and
>>>only one of the four has a printer.
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>> But I guess all four can use that printer, right?
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>Yes -- my point exactly. While working on a school machine from home,
>I don't necessarily want to print from the machine I'm working from.
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>As you say above in the post I'm responding to, the machine I'm on
>knows how to print to other machines on my network -- but this seems
>like an argument for tunnelling IPP over ssh, not printing from X.
My idea was that if we tunneled through X, the X server would accept
the print job and pass it to lpr (or CUPS or whatever), and that would
know how to print on the printer you want, even if it's on a different
machine than your X server.
But yes, printing through an ssh tunnel would be ok, too.
- anton
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