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

[David Raymond]

Thanks, that worked!

Do you have plans to make printing control more accessible to the
naive user by the time this becomes the stable distribution?

Dave Raymond

Josselin Mouette writes:
 > 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.
 > 
 > Cheers,
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