Major 2.18 Issues... [Cannot print using CUPS printer in 2.18]

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Apr 21 19:06:26 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 11:24 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 14:18 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Try rebuilding libgnomeprint and gtk20 will WITH_CUPS="yes"
> > in /etc/make.conf, and see if it helps.
> 
> I rebuilt gnome2 completely, and used that flag in make.conf.  
> Same problem.  I also have issues printing from Evolution -- the
> preview is correct, saving as a PDF and printing that is fine, but
> using straight print chops the margins.
> 
> I wonder if some of this is due to old config files.  Many of these
> date back to the 2.4 era, and they may be stale (even though I used
> mergemaster along the way, usually).

mergemaster has nothing to do with GNOME.  If you suspect stale files,
create a dummy account, and test printing there.

> 
> Nevertheless, I will try to rebuild libgnomeprint and gtk20 and see
> what happens.
> 
> One last question: is there a complete list of daemons that should be
> started for Gnome?  Right now I have:
> 
>  dbus_enable="YES"
>  polkitd_enable="YES"
>  hald_enable="YES"
>  system_tools_backends_enable="YES"
>  avahi_daemon_enable="YES"
>  avahi_dnsconfd_enable="YES"
> 
> and use .xinitrc to start it.  Am I missing any?

This is the complete list except for gdm.

Joe

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