[YLUG] Sorry forgot the q! Hit all of my New Years resolutions so far / Unity

[Tom Carver]

Ooh cheers for the tip, will give that a try tonight!

On 23 January 2012 15:52, Martin Rowe <dbg400.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 January 2012 15:28, Tom Carver <thom.carver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have to say I'm a big fan - my non-computer-geek wife gets on fine
> with it
> > too, but the choice of left-hand side of the screen for the unity bar
> drives
> > her up the wall, as it's so easy to accidentally trigger when going for
> the
> > browser back button. Other than that she uses Linux on a regular basis
> now
> > without problem - now we just need HP to write some Linux printer drivers
> > and we'll never need to go back to Windows!
>
> Do you have an older HP printer? Pretty much all recent ones are
> covered by HPLIP - http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
> It's in the hplip package in Ubuntu, and hplip-gui gives you a status
> screen/control panel (for ink levels, default settings etc).
>
> I've stuck with HP printers over the years as they've generally been
> well supported in Linux; other than the old win-printers, that is.
>
> Regards, Martin
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