Passthrough-printing in gnome-terminal

["Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm prime gushi org>]

Hello,

I've been looking around for an answer to this feature -- in a few cases I 
found a user who asked this question but who had his answers closed out on 
him rather than being taken as a bug report (or a feature request).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/155935
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/234518

As I've got some English skills, I'll pose it.

I'd like to get passthrough-printing working in Gnome-terminal.  I'm using 
whatever version of Gnome is installed in the latest as of this time 
(11/13/2008) version of Ubuntu (which includes GNOME Terminal 2.24.1.1).

For those unaware, Passthrough Printing is a neat ability of terminal 
emulation applications to send a "printer on" and "printer off" ANSI 
escape code.  It's found in most terminal emulators, up to and including 
Putty, SecureCRT, VtyNet, as well I believe as "xterm" and a few others.

I'm more than willing to help contribute my experience getting this to 
work on other platforms.

If there's an alternate terminal app I could be using, please let me know 
what it is.  Xterm just isn't configurable enough and resizable enough (I 
can resize an xterm but I can't tweak the other options easily, such as 
font size or colors) to work for me.

This is probably a fairly easy feature to add, for what it's worth...just 
buffer when you see those escape codes, and chunk it to a print dialog.

-Dan Mahoney

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