Re: KDE - lpr clash
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:11:07AM +0000, Carlos Sousa wrote:
>
> On my system, KDE applications that use the "centralized KDE printing
> facilities" cannot print. Printing from Konqueror, for instance,
> generates an error saying "/usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1' somefile failed ...".
>
> I've managed to track this down to my lpr command not accepting the
> command-line option "-#", which specifies the number of copies to be
> printed out. The man page mentions "Often a site will disable this
> feature...", so I've spent the last 2 hours sweeping through the WHOLE
> /etc directory and all lp* manpages trying to figure out how this option
> may have been disabled on my system by some default Debian configuration.
>
Hi Carlos,
lpr -#1 doesn't work on my system either, tho I don't know why. But perhaps you can tell KDE to leave out that option. Try to edit the 'print command' in KDE's printing centre or whatever it's called? (Just an idea, because I don't know the recent KDE version.)
Regards,
Joachim
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