Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0) SOLVED
On 07 Jul 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Filing the bug
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489765)
> immediately produced an answer: you have to enter
>
> gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups"
>
> in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
>
> Then lpr printing works with standard Debian packages. I think it
> is a bug that this is not done automatically, or at least with
> some warning during install. Anthony, I hope that this will work
> in your case.
>
> It will need some more research to find out why it worked by
> default with the user-compiled versions, but I think I won't be
> bothered.
>
> Regards, Jan
>
It does, it does! Thank you for pointing me to this.
Anthony
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