Ralph Shumaker wrote: >.. >> No, I don't have an authoritative answer, but it seems wrong to fix the >> problem by removing those standard files -- which seem to come from the >> libgnomeprintNN rpm (NN=22 for me, yours may be different). > > I don't remember how to check but would be happy to if it will make a > difference. I don't know how I got that entry in my gnumeric printer > selection, but I don't want it to be the default. I NEVER use that > selection because I don't like it. IIRC, it always spits out an extra > blank page. Since I never use it, I don't see the point in having it. I > don't know if it has anything to do with the two files listed above. > Further, I don't know if these two files are needed. I suspect that > maybe they were installed when I installed fc4.
Nah, it doesn't really matter _where_ they came from, they're on every (gnome) system, I guess. My thought is that if you delete them, the programs like gnumeric may simply stop printing. But OTOH, removing the one you don't want to be default _may_ force gnumeric to "find" another default, so it may be worth a try. My thought is to move the files somewhere rather than delete them -- but that's your call. >.. > The only way I could change the default was to add a printer. I added > one, changed the default, but a fresh login and launch of gnumeric > showed the same old default (generic postscript printer). It showed the > new printer entry, but default was no different. In fact, it shows 4 > printers, 2 of which don't exist, and 1 of which is basicly just a > duplicate of the actual printer. The four listed are: > > Create a PDF document > Generic Postscript > TimeWaste > hp1100 > > And no matter what I do, gnome programs ALWAYS come up defaulting to the > second one. Sounds like cups itself may be confused. I have just deterrmined that in the /etc/cups directory the files cupsd.conf printers.conf lpoptions seem to be the important files controlling cups. The third may not be quite as important? Cupsd won't run without cupsd.conf, so that's prtobably ok, but I found that if printers.conf is absent when cups starts, that gnumeric falls back to showing 2 printers: create-pdf and generic-ps. Perhaps there's something screwed-up in your printers.conf. Is there a <DefaultPrinter ..> stanza? Or, why don't you just post your /etc/cups/printers.conf file? Other thoughts: you're not running the lpd daemon together with cups, are you? What do you get from ps -ef | grep cups\|lpd I get: ..cups-config-daemon ..eggcups --sm-client-id default4 ..cupsd If you have multiple cupsd (or also have lpd), that might confuse things. After any messing-around with the files you do have to do service cups restart (or perhaps just ..reload instead of ..restart is adequate) ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
