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

[James Richard Tyrer]

Dale wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks for the tip.

> 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
> 
Actually, "Printing" isn't in System Settings, but I tried to open it in 
a Konsole after "su" and it didn't help.  And as a bonus, it screwed up 
my root account. :-)  Apparently, KDE4 doesn't know the difference 
between running with root permissions and actually being root.

Any who, I use the CUPS configuration HTML page to set up the printer, 
which doesn't solve the problem but it is a workaround that worked.

So, I tried printing and it printed.  Problem is that it printed the 
PostScript code rather than the page.  Other people have had that 
problem so I presume that it can be fixed.

-- 
JRT