Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:25:03 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: cannot print in kde apps using lp
Message-ID:  <200610231925.03509.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061023180314.GA4195@osiris.chen.org.nz>
References:  <20061023174505.99456.qmail@web31510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20061023180314.GA4195@osiris.chen.org.nz>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Monday 23 October 2006 11:03, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:45:05AM -0700, Karl Agee wrote:
> > I posted about this about a month ago, thought i had
> > it it figured out but I guess I fooled myself.
> >
> > I have kde 3.5.4 installed in fbsd6.1.  I cannot print
> > from kde applications, such as the printer control
> > module, kpdf, etc.
> >
> > I can print just_fine from OO.o, Firefox and Adobe
> > Reader 7.
> >
> > The error kde gives me is:
> >
> > usr/local/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1'
> > '/usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps' :
> > execution failed with message:
> > /usr/local/bin/lpr: Connection refused
> >
> > I do have cups installed but it is not running or
> > enabled.
> >
> > I dont understand why I can print from non-kde apps
> > but not from kde apps.
>
> The problem is the `lpr' that KDE is invoking. It's using it's own
> internal version that requires CUPS to be running. I don't like
> CUPS, so I recompiled the whole of KDE making sure that x11/kdelibs3
> had the flag -DWITHOUT_CUPS. With this flag, KDE runs /usr/bin/lpr
> instead.
>

Sort of backwards, it uses the /usr/local/bin/lpr that cups-base 
installs. If you mv it to lpr.o, you can use lp to print from KDE. This 
is a fix that lofi sent to me early this morning.

Kent

> Cheers.

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project".
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200610231925.03509.kstewart>