Bug#491325: gnome-desktop-environment: Gnome unstable doesn't find printers

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 491325 libgtk2.0-0
forcemerge 489765 491325
thanks

Le vendredi 18 juillet 2008 à 10:03 -0600, David Raymond a écrit :
> I upgraded from etch to sid and all gnome applications I have tried
> (including epiphany, eog, and evince) can now only print to a file.
> In etch all printers available in /etc/printcap were usable.  I used
> lprng in etch, but in the upgrade cups got installed as well.  I'm
> more familiar with lprng, so I removed all the cups-related packages,
> thinking that destructive interference might be going on.  However,
> the above problem existed both before and after this removal.  I can
> print in sid to any printer in printcap using lprng from applications
> like gv or xpdf, or directly from the command line.
> 
> I tried poking around to see what was wrong, but printing in gnome is
> pretty opaque.

Just set:
	gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups"
in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.

This should really be documented in lprng as Joey suggested.

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