[kde-linux] System -> Printing doesn't work.

[Dale]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> I have almost finished installing CUPS and now I wonder if it was 
> necessary, but I will have to figure that out after this issue.
>
> When I start: "System -> Printing" the dialog opens with the options 
> grayed out.  I know exactly what the problem is, it needs to run with SU 
> privilege.  But, how do I do this?  I would expect that the KDESU dialog 
> would pop up and ask me for the root password before it opens but this 
> doesn't happen.  Since this is a Python program, I can't simply set the 
> SUID permission bit.  I presume that others have this working so that 
> there must be a way to do it.
>
> HELP! :-)
>
>   

I'm assuming you are using KDE 4.*.  If so, this should help:

kdesu /usr/bin/systemsettings

Note, that should work but it may vary according to your distro.  I use
Gentoo and mine is actually /usr/kde/4.2/bin/systemsettings

Hopefully that will help.

Dale

:-)  :-)