Printing dialog not listing CUPS printer

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Hans Nieser wrote:
| Dear fellow idiots,
|
| On my LAN at home I have a printer (HP Deskjet 990c) shared through
| Windows Networking. I want to use this printer from my desktop (Gentoo)
| and laptop (FreeBSD 6.0) computers (which both run Gnome 2.12.2 as
| desktop), so I installed cups, gnome-cups-manager, the hpijs driver and
| cups-smb-backend. On both computers I have added the printer using
| gnome-cups-manager where it shows up in the UI and also succesfully
| prints the testpage.
|
| Now, on the Gentoo machine, all is fine; I can launch any application
| and hit "Print", select my Deskjet and it beautyfully Just Works (tm).
|
| On my FreeBSD laptop however, when I launch any application (well, I
| tried gedit, evince, Screem and OpenOffice) it doesn't list the printer
| and only lists the "Create a PDF document" and "Generic Postscript" items.
|
| I tried printing to Generic Postscript which uses lpr, but nothing
| happened. Restarting cupsd didn't help, neither did rebooting the entire
| machine (I am slowly starting to realise that that trick only works on
| Windows). The printer is listed in /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf and
| /etc/printcap. I couldn't find any related errors in the CUPS error log.

MAke sure you rebuild libgnomeprint with WITH_CUPS defined (add
WITH_CUPS=yes to /etc/make.conf).

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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