LPD/CUPS under konqueror

Kurt Pfeifle kde-print@mail.kde.org
Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:10:56 +0100


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.

Cheers,
Kurt