This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi, > > I did check if locahost is working and it is. > The strange thing is that I did a fresh install on a new system and kde > applications list lp as the defaul printer option. however on my system it > does > not which is wierd. I would really appreciate some insight as to why > applications like emacs mozilla abiword are able to use the printer setup > whereas KDE office suite applications are not able to use it. > > thank you > regards > Harshu
I think KDE apps only look at /etc/printcap, which is not written to by
CUPS by default. There is a way to tell KDE apps (from the control
center? I don't know, as I'm not near a box with KDE on it) to use
/etc/printcap.cups, or you can
rm /etc/printcap
ln -s /etc/printcap.cups /etc/printcap
HTH,
Steve
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