Re: Printers in konqueror
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 17:51, John Davidson wrote:
> Somewhere along all the recent changes to kde2 I have lost the ability to
> print from konqueror. I am using the CUPS printing system and have no
> difficulty printing a test page from the web admin interface, but it is
> impossible to print from any other application.
>
> Before when the printer worked in cups it worked everywhere. Now it
> doesn't.
>
> Also I note that whenever I open a qtcups in kde and then close the window,
> the process remains. This occurs for each instance of openning a qtcups
> window. This means that I sometimes have 3 or more qtcups processes
> running.
>
> I have looked through the documentation for configuring konqueror but htere
> was no help there. Any ideas?
>
> John Davidson
I had printing problems to when using CUPS and KDE. KDE is looking for the
printer definition in /etc/printcap, while the default CUPS is keeping them
in /etc/printcap.cups. A softlink helped for me ln -s /etc/printcap
/etc/printcap.cups
Sincerly,
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