LPD/CUPS under konqueror
Till Kamppeter
kde-print@mail.kde.org
Sun, 09 Mar 2003 16:55:36 +0100
Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
>> This is a known bug
>
>
> Huh?
>
> If so, it is unknown to me...
>
>> in the auto-detection done by KDE Print. Once switching the button to
>> CUPS manually it stays there and you have access to the full
>> functionality of CUPS.
>>
>> I CCed this also to the KDE Print mailing list.
>>
>> Michael, how is the spooler auto-detection supposed to work? How can I
>> have it automatically be CUPS on a system running only CUPS as spooler.
>>
>> Till
>>
>>
>> Fred Bastok wrote:
>>
>>> Status : using cups on a local USB epson printer. Configured through
>>> printerdrake
>>>
>>> Want to print a page in konqueror.
>>> The box "Printer system currently use :" shows Generic UNIX LPD Print
>>> System (default) instead of CUPS
>>
>
> To my knowledge this only happens...
>
> ...if the CUPS daemon is not started at the time you want to print
>
> ...or if you had manually changed it to "Generic UNIX LPD" before.
>
I have tested on a freshly installed machine with a fresh user now and
there CUPS was detected correctly (KDE 3.1.0). But sometimes I already
saw mis-detections.
Till