On Wednesday 14 March 2001 17:51, John Davidson wrote: > Somewhere along all the recent changes to kde2 I have lost the ability to > print from konqueror. I am using the CUPS printing system and have no > difficulty printing a test page from the web admin interface, but it is > impossible to print from any other application. > > Before when the printer worked in cups it worked everywhere. Now it > doesn't. > > Also I note that whenever I open a qtcups in kde and then close the window, > the process remains. This occurs for each instance of openning a qtcups > window. This means that I sometimes have 3 or more qtcups processes > running. > > I have looked through the documentation for configuring konqueror but htere > was no help there. Any ideas? > > John Davidson
I had printing problems to when using CUPS and KDE. KDE is looking for the printer definition in /etc/printcap, while the default CUPS is keeping them in /etc/printcap.cups. A softlink helped for me ln -s /etc/printcap /etc/printcap.cups Sincerly,
