FreeBSD 11, Xfce, and printing

[David Christensen]

On 01/22/17 23:59, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:29:25 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 01/22/17 22:53, Polytropon wrote:
>>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:50:37 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
>>>> I wanted to print a document today.  I went looking for:
>>>>
>>>> Application Menu -> Settings -> Printing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It does not exist.  All I see is:
>>>>
>>>> Application Menu -> Settings -> Xfce 4 Printing System Settings
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> CUPS is missing from the left-hand pane.
>>>
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/


I followed along with the above article.


Pages 1 and 2 were uneventful.


On page 3 (Configuring the CUPS Print Server), the following files do 
not exist on my system:

/usr/local/etc/cups/mime.types
/usr/local/etc/cups/mime.convs


Perhaps the recommended setting:

application/octet-stream


Is already in the source code (?):

toor at freebsd:/root # grep octet-stream -r /usr/local/include/cups
/usr/local/include/cups/cups.h:#  define CUPS_FORMAT_AUTO	 
"application/octet-stream"


Page 4 was uneventful.


I didn't need to go any further -- the CUPS web user interface works and 
the printer dialogs in LibreOffice and eVince work.


Thanks, everyone, for the help.  :-)


David