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