Hello Lugs,
Xmas present to self was a PinebookPro https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ Mostly I'm pleased with it but found two problems with no solutions on Pine forums (perils of being an early adopter).
1. This is an issue on my Mint Desktop too, and my wife's KDE Neon. Is there a way to make window borders wider? Or if not visually larger then make the target area bigger? When trying to manually resize a window I find it very hard with mouse or trackpad to hit the edge/corner to click and drag. Slim borders look great but don't work well (for me).
2. Specifically Pine but shows how much I don't understand... We have a laser printer connected by USB to my wife's PC (as she prints most) but 'shared' so I can print via ethernet from my desktop. My Mint PC found the share and set it up easily. The PinebookPro also finds it, but set up doesn't work.
First, there's no Printer utility so I installed CUPS via Synaptic, then accessed it via localhost:631 in Chromium. Doesn't work so tried re-launching Chromium as root from terminal. That gets me into CUPS OK. It detects the shared printer OK but doesn't list the maker (Samsung). I guess that's because Samsung haven't released an ARM driver. I've never really understood why you need a locally installed driver anyway to use a printer installed on another PC (does anyone?) CUPS has an alternative for unlisted printers though, install a PPD file. So I downloaded it from Samsung and installed it. All the set up seems to go OK after that but trying to print just throws an error 'Unable to locate printer' which is weird because the setup DID locate it.
Some interesting extras to this. Our router has a USB port that can be used with either NAS or shared printers. I tried that in the past and couldn't make it work at all. Someone suggested that the printer might request firmware from the PC and maybe the router doesn't understand the request. Whatever that's no help.
The printer has an ethernet socket so could be a network printer, but the router has only 4 sockets and they are all occupied (server, smart TV, 2 desktops). Short of buying a switch that's out too.
The printer also has WiFi which the network setting widget on the Pinebook finds automatically. It asks for a password which Samsung don't supply, they tell you to use the (Windows/OSX) set up CD!
Any suggestions? It'd be nice to print, but not essential I can always print to file and email it to myself!
Not sure if it works on all desk top environments but try pressing alt +f8 then use the arrow keys to resize a window. Until you press return, the cursor will lock to which ever side you move it using the arrow keys and you can also use the mouse to drag it.
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 20:39, Phil Thane phil@pthane.co.uk wrote:
Hello Lugs,
Xmas present to self was a PinebookPro https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ Mostly I'm pleased with it but found two problems with no solutions on Pine forums (perils of being an early adopter).
- This is an issue on my Mint Desktop too, and my wife's KDE Neon. Is
there a way to make window borders wider? Or if not visually larger then make the target area bigger? When trying to manually resize a window I find it very hard with mouse or trackpad to hit the edge/corner to click and drag. Slim borders look great but don't work well (for me).
Thanks Tony, that works. Now I just have to undo the habit of reaching for the mouse/trackpad formed over 30 years.
Any comments on CUPS anyone?
-- Phil
On 2020-01-04 18:46, Tony Bronze wrote:
Not sure if it works on all desk top environments but try pressing alt +f8 then use the arrow keys to resize a window. Until you press return, the cursor will lock to which ever side you move it using the arrow keys and you can also use the mouse to drag it.
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 20:39, Phil Thane phil@pthane.co.uk wrote:
Hello Lugs,
Xmas present to self was a PinebookPro https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ Mostly I'm pleased with it but found two problems with no solutions on Pine forums (perils of being an early adopter).
- This is an issue on my Mint Desktop too, and my wife's KDE Neon.
Is there a way to make window borders wider? Or if not visually larger then make the target area bigger? When trying to manually resize a window I find it very hard with mouse or trackpad to hit the edge/corner to click and drag. Slim borders look great but don't work well (for me).
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 20:39:01 +0000 Phil Thane phil@pthane.co.uk wrote:
[...] It detects the shared printer OK but doesn't list the maker (Samsung). I guess that's because Samsung haven't released an ARM driver. I've never really understood why you need a locally installed driver anyway to use a printer installed on another PC (does anyone?) CUPS has an alternative for unlisted printers though, install a PPD file. So I downloaded it from Samsung and installed it. All the set up seems to go OK after that but trying to print just throws an error 'Unable to locate printer' which is weird because the setup DID locate it.
We've not needed the drivers installed locally for about a decade, have we? CUPS now includes both "Generic PDF Printer" and "IPP Everywhere" drivers and its own drivers have been required to support PDF input since version 1.6, so it should just be a case of telling CUPS on the client system to use one of the generic drivers, but I would not swear to the exact method because it's been a while since I set up a printer. I just don't seem to print that much any more and even less from a machine other than the one with the printer.
Hope that helps,
On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 18:08 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 20:39:01 +0000 Phil Thane phil@pthane.co.uk wrote:
[...] It detects the shared printer OK but doesn't list the maker (Samsung). I guess that's because Samsung haven't released an ARM driver. I've never really understood why you need a locally installed driver anyway to use a printer installed on another PC (does anyone?) CUPS has an alternative for unlisted printers though, install a PPD file. So I downloaded it from Samsung and installed it. All the set up seems to go OK after that but trying to print just throws an error 'Unable to locate printer' which is weird because the setup DID locate it.
We've not needed the drivers installed locally for about a decade, have we? CUPS now includes both "Generic PDF Printer" and "IPP Everywhere" drivers and its own drivers have been required to support PDF input since version 1.6, so it should just be a case of telling CUPS on the client system to use one of the generic drivers, but I would not swear to the exact method because it's been a while since I set up a printer. I just don't seem to print that much any more and even less from a machine other than the one with the printer.
Hope that helps,
Thanks, I'll have another go tomorrow.
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Tony Bronze