Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:47:12 +0000
It looks like if https only is enabled then neither !FindIPP or !GetIPP can see the printer.
Random projects...Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:45:11 +0000
I made the modification to the code above so that mousehack is not turned off in full-screen mode — and also in another point of the same file where there is code to turn it back on again when exiting full-screen mode. I have commented out the original code rather than deleting it entirely.
I have tested this on a MacBook Air M4 using the RISC OS Direct “easy start bundle” with the modifications mentioned earlier in the thread by David Pitt and can report that it works. The mouse pointer “jumps” a little when you first enter or leave full-screen mode . It’s obvious that the OS mouse configuration settings won’t work but this shouldn’t be a problem. At least it’s now usable in full-screen mode where it wasn’t before.
I’ve noted an oddity in the Mac version of RPCEmu — not a result of my changes. (The incorrect message was displayed in the original version cloned from Chris Gransden’s repository.) There is conditional compilation based on Q_OS_MACOS having been defined. At one point this says that when entering full-screen mode there should be a message saying to press “CTRL and COMMAND” tp exit full-screen mode. But the message actually displays “CTRL and END” which is the message for other OSs. This makes me wonder if there issues in picking up MacOS correctly, and which might be responsible for some of the issues identified in this thread.
CTRL and END doesn’t work, though COMMAND and END does — though on my MacBook that’s COMMANND + FN + → .CTRL and COMMAND does work.
You can find the modified version of main_window.cpp at https://github.com/DrDavidGee/RPCEmu-for-Mac
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:36:11 +0000
Yes ippdiscover does see something and mentions my printer, but not sure what to do with the information it generated
Did ippdiscover return something like,
ipps://192.168.1.100/ipp/print
If looks like !GetIPP only supports,
http://192.168.1.100/ipp/print
You’ll need to make sure your printer has port 80 and http enabled.
Network Printing / RemotePrinterFSWed, 15 Apr 2026 15:35:11 +0000
Hi Stefan,
FindIPP says: “No useful printer found”. I presume I cannot make so much wrong in this case?
Sometimes the printer will time out between it being found and the data being sent back and hence you that error.
As previously mentioned try the other application !GetIPP.
Try entering http://192.168.178.173:631/ipp/print in the dialogue box and it should get the printer definition file hopefully.
Update: Forgot to say sometimes repeat tries of running FindIPP also gets the information eventually if the printer is slow to respond.
Network Printing / RemotePrinterFSWed, 15 Apr 2026 14:51:35 +0000
@David Gee & @DownUnderROUser: Normally I don’t use Google at all for all the known reasons. Instead I have preselected DuckDuckGo in my Firefoxes and in Brave of course the Brave Search.
It would be interesting to see the results if, let’s say, someone in Germany, someone in England and another in Australia type in the same search (they would have to adjust the exact words before).
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:42:59 +0000
So, let’s go on! First of all, thanks a lot to all!
I’ve succesfully printed via network with /Connections/File: “JetDirect;host=192.168.178.173” AND via “RemotePrinterFS#proto=JetDirect;host=192.168.178.173:”
The “:” at the end was missing in my line, I didn’t get that I had to add this, until today, thanks to Raik.
@Dave Higton: I downloaded all of your programs and executed FindIPP – it gets all the data of my Brother correctly but if I click on “save”, FindIPP says: “No useful printer found”. I presume I cannot make so much wrong in this case?
@Andrew Rawnsley & @Raik: Then I did the PCL-Duplex100/zip stuff and I have a Printer Definition “PCL-Duplex”. In !Edit it won’t print double-sided but in !Writer and in !Fireworkz it does. Very fine, indeed!
Next thing I’ll do after having failed with my USB DAC and !IsocUSB is introducing myself to !Fireworkz.
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:41:13 +0000
Yes ippdiscover does see something and mentions my printer, but not sure what to do with the information it generated
Network Printing / RemotePrinterFSWed, 15 Apr 2026 14:16:14 +0000
well I just typed ‘remoteprinterfs’ into DuckDuckGo (Bing engine) and the first result was a link to this forum discussion!
Use DuckDuckGo instead – it has improved significantly in the last few years (or is that just by in comparison to how bad google now is!? Unfortunately good maps with street view still beats the competition by a long way.
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:04:02 +0000
Well, I’m not somebody who had an Acorn machine in the 1980 — I had an Amstrad CPC (would be Schneider in Germany, I believe). I followed that up with an Amstrad PC4386, and various other PCs since. I was aware of RISC OS and of the RiscPC but it was a lot more expensive than PCs at the time. I didn’t actually use RISC OS until 2012 when I purchased a Raspberry Pi 1 and found that Linux ran extremely slowly on it. I tried RISC OS on it and it was fine. I’ve had several RISC OS systems since then — both emulated and real.
I’d say Google search isn’t what it was. Between the AI summaries and the “people also ask” sections, it’s hard to find what you’re looking for. In fact Google does list Stefan Bellon’s site. The problem is that if you search for “remoteprinterfs”, it searches instead for “remote printers” together with a lot of sponsored ads for printers. There is a link to search for “remoteprinterfs” instead and if you click it, Stefan Bellon’s site is the second one listed.
The same sort of thing happens if you use punctuation to narrow down the search. Google seems determined to show you ads and irrelevant links than what you’re really looking for.
Quick videos for RISC OS CodingWed, 15 Apr 2026 13:36:06 +0000
Thank you also, I need to familiarize myself with Github, in particular to complete Mkdrawf by Gareth Mac Caughan.
Desktop Themes at ROUGOL, Mon 20th April 2026Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:33:09 +0000
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