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Post#1 by opr108 » 26 Sep 2022, 16:26

Hi! I'm using porteus kiosks on Linux machines and want totally disable print preview window. Is there any way to do it?
Silent print option doesn't work.

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Post#2 by fanthom » 26 Sep 2022, 19:12

Hello opr108,

Silent printing does work in kiosk. Are you using 5.4.0 version?

Please provide your kiosk config (remove sensitive data from it).

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Post#3 by opr108 » 26 Sep 2022, 19:24

Hello! I'm using 4.9.0 version
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Post#4 by fanthom » 26 Sep 2022, 19:45

Silent printing was fixed in kiosk 5.1.0:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/news.html#201012

So you need to upgrade your clients to at least this version.

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Post#5 by opr108 » 26 Sep 2022, 19:48

Thank you for the information! BTW is there any guide for upgrade?

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Post#6 by fanthom » 26 Sep 2022, 19:58

You need to reinstall the client and point it to your remote kiosk config.
Thats all.

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Post#7 by opr108 » 27 Sep 2022, 08:47

fanthom wrote:
26 Sep 2022, 19:45
Silent printing was fixed in kiosk 5.1.0:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/news.html#201012
It is said the bug was fixed for Mozilla. What about Chrome? We are using chrome

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Post#8 by fanthom » 27 Sep 2022, 14:16

Just checked and silent printing works well on kiosk 4.9.0 + Chrome.

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Post#9 by opr108 » 27 Sep 2022, 14:55

fanthom wrote:
27 Sep 2022, 14:16
Just checked and silent printing works well on kiosk 4.9.0 + Chrome.
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Well what could be wrong then? Could you show the config?

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Post#10 by opr108 » 27 Sep 2022, 14:56

Silent print means no preview window in any case? Maybe I'm wrong about that

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Post#11 by fanthom » 28 Sep 2022, 06:34

"Silent print means no preview window in any case?"
Yes

"Well what could be wrong then?"
You are probably loading a different config than you think.
Or maybe you have customized the ISO manually and broke some kiosk functions.
Or maybe you are using Firefox and not Chrome.
Hard to guess ...

Silent printing works for me and for other kiosk users. Something is wrong on your side (human error).
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