It appears that the printer dialogs are ignoring the system default printer, or they're picking up a default from elsewhere.
If you right-click a printer in the dialog box, then select Set As Default, you get two options. One is to set it as a personal default, which updates ~/.cups/lpoptions. If you do that, then applications will detect it as the default. If you pick the "set as the system-wide default" and also check "clear my personal default setting", applications seem to pick the first printer known to CUPS (the first one ever added) -- certainly not the one I picked to be my default printer. Doing this twice -- setting the printer as a personal default, then setting it as the system default and deselecting "clear my personal default" seems to get everything working as expected. However, I do have a /etc/lpoptions which points to the "wrong" default printer (the one I'm seeing in applications). After deleting this file, the default printer is picked up correctly! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328798 Title: Setting default printer does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1328798/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
