wine users - Mar 2008 - How to Disable Printers

I'm trying to stop wine from recognising my printers, however whenever I
delete them from the registry, it just recreates them.

The reason I'm doing this is because an application I'm using
doesn't like printers with names greater than 59 characters (This isn't
wine's fault as it does it in Windows too), and it prevents me from using
certain parts of the program even though they don't relate to printing.

An alternative would be for some advice on how to shorten the printer names. the
actual printer name is 'MFC-465' and 'PDF printer'.... but
I'm guessing the absolute path is where it comes undone.

Any help would be appreciated....

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:56 AM, mawdryn <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm trying to stop wine from recognising my printers, however whenever
I delete them from the registry, it just recreates them.
>
>  The reason I'm doing this is because an application I'm using
doesn't like printers with names greater than 59 characters (This isn't
wine's fault as it does it in Windows too), and it prevents me from using
certain parts of the program even though they don't relate to printing.
>
>  An alternative would be for some advice on how to shorten the printer
names. the actual printer name is 'MFC-465' and 'PDF
printer'.... but I'm guessing the absolute path is where it comes
undone.
>
>  Any help would be appreciated....
>
You could try recompiling wine without cups support.