Marking as Confirmed. Default Printer is from legacy Linux printing systems where you could designate a default printer instead of typing out a long device name string. It works similar to the default printer selection in Windows. The difference is you have to select a default printer. If you don't then nothing happens.
Go to a browser and type: http://localhost:631/printers/ You should see a list of defined printers. You can select default printer by clicking "Set as Default". After that, then try using default printer in gnome applications. I agree with you it's confusing to a new user. A dialog should come up that says no default printer is defined would you like to pick one? ** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Preferences -> Default Printer is useless https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196538 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
