How to make CUPS printers available in KDE

[Matthias Posseldt]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 19:00, David Jarvie wrote:
> I use CUPS for printing. I installed KDE 3.3.2 (compiled from
> source), but when I try to print from KDE, the CUPS printers don't
> show up in the list of printers. When I bring up the Control Centre
> Printing module, non-root users show no CUPS printers, but when I
> switch to Administrator Mode, the printers show up correctly. However
> the printers *are* actually usable by non-root users from outside
> KDE. How can I make them available through KDE?
>
> An additional fault is: When I bring up the KDE Printing Manager or
> the Control Centre Printers module, I get the following message
> displayed 3 times before the relevant dialog appears:
>     "There was an error loading kdeprint_lpd. The diagnostic is:
>     Library files for "kdeprint_lpd.la" not found in paths."
>
> Since I have CUPS installed, not lpd, it isn't obvious why it should
> be looking for kdeprint_lpd.

You have to switch the printing system used. In the printer dialog, 
press on the "Expand" button and choose CUPS as your print system.

Regards,
Matthias

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