Since the bug report is very old, the original cause for what is described here may have changed. But on a focal system, the gtk print dialog populates the printer list on its own. Even if cups is not running locally, it queries avahi-daemon and produces a list of printers. This is causing a number of issues, including printer duplicates, printer entries that don't work, printers that are labeled in a weird way etc. It is silly that such broken behaviour cannot be turned off. In any case, until this improves, users may choose to use a patched version of gtk3 where the broken avahi lookup is removed from the printer dialog:
https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-weyland/+archive/ubuntu/libgtk3-no- avahi/ Also see lp:1379359 and lp:1753509 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1477106 Title: Cups directive "Browsing Off" ignored by print dialog To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1477106/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
