first of all see this picture:<br><br><a href="http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpeg-0-peace-screenshot">http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpeg-0-peace-screenshot</a><br><br><br>here on kubuntu 12.04 is pretty simple set your default printer .... and i guess is simple in the others distro the option is disable only because i have only that printer but if you select the second printer , that actually is the fax you can set like default printer .<br>
<br><br><br> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
> just open firefox or your browser and go here<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://localhost:631/printers/" target="_blank">http://localhost:631/printers/</a><br>
><br>
> select your printer<br>
><br>
> then ..... on administration box select : set like server default<br>
<br>
</div>That is for system defaults. Need personal defaults.<br>
That is how I normally do system defaults.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>IF you are on lpadmin user you can do what you want .....via firefox.<br><br>for user in youruserlist ; do sudo adduser $USER lpadmin ; done <br><br>anyway if you want restrict and manage your system you can always .... <br>
<br>kdesudo kate /etc/cups/cupsd.conf<br><br><br>NOTE KDESUDO is only for kubutnu i guess , if you don't use it you shoudl be able to do<br><br>sudo kate /etc/cups/cupsd.conf<br><br><br><br>search for this : (CTRL F) (line 72 and 117 )<br>
<br><br>CUPS-Set-Default<br><br>and remove them ... restart cups no password should be required via firefox... choose the option you want... the conf file is pretty simple.<br><br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">
><br>
> you can see here <a href="http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-fn2058" target="_blank">http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-fn2058</a><br>
><br>
> btw ..... on kde 4.8.2 i have :<br>
><br>
> system settings => printer configuration => as you can see here i can't set<br>
> the printer like default printer ...to solve that<br>
><br>
> kdesudo systemsettings<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-bw2058" target="_blank">http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-bw2058</a><br>
><br>
> again if you can't do that you can set your default printer using this<br>
> method :<br>
><br>
> type lpoptions<br>
><br>
> you should see something like this<br>
><br>
> poptions<br>
> auth-info-required=none copies=1<br>
> device-uri=hp:/usb/Officejet_4500_G510g-m?serial=CN113F81FP05CQ<br>
> finisets=none,none marker-change-time=0 number-up=1 printer-commands=none<br>
> printer-info='HP Officejet 4500 Ged=true printer-location=pavillion<br>
> printer-make-and-model='HP Officejet 4500 g510g-m, hpcups 3.11.7'<br>
> pinter-state-reasons=paused printer-type=167948<br>
> printer-uri-supported=ipp://localhost:631/printers/Offi<br>
><br>
> to set your printer like default in my case . using the name you can<br>
> extract from this line<br>
> device-uri=hp:/usb/Officejet_4500_G510g-m?serial=CN113F81FP05CQ<br>
><br>
> lpoptions -d “Officejet_4500_G510g-m”<br>
<br>
</div>I was aware of lpoptions command.<br>
No way a normal user can deal with that.<br>
<br>
It's just too bad that kde has lost so much ground for enterprise use :-(<br>
Then again the alternatives are as bad or worse.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">><br>
> you can use sudo before lpoptions if you can't set it like normal user.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> 2012/5/8 John McMonagle <<a href="mailto:johnm@advocap.org">johnm@advocap.org</a>><br>
><br>
> > We have many printers and people need to set their default printer.<br>
> ><br>
> > Also we have large multifunction printers that need account codes and a<br>
> > lot of<br>
> > other options.<br>
> > To make it manageable people set up instances with sets of options for<br>
> > various<br>
> > projects.<br>
> ><br>
> > Using kde 3.5 could do it all in Control Center with a nice user<br>
> > interface.<br>
> > I can't seem to find any way to get the job done in kde 4.4.<br>
> ><br>
> > The best I can find so far is using xpp.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is there anything available?<br>
> ><br>
> > John<br>
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