[TriLUG] Wrong print manager

[Brian Henning]

Hi Folks,
   This is the first in what will probably be a series of threads I 
start to solve some of the remaining glitches I'm running across in 
getting my fresh Edge installation configured the way I like it.

The problem is CUPS.  Nothing seems to be using it; all my apps are 
defaulting to another print manager (not sure which).  I'm in KDE, and 
if I click K-Menu -> System -> Printers (/usr/bin/foomatic-gui), I'm 
prompted for the root password and nothing further happens.  If I head 
to the command line and type foomatic-gui, I get "Unable to read printer 
database."

Thing is, I want to use CUPS.  I like it; it works well; I know how to 
configure it.  K -> Settings -> Printing Manager (kcmshell printmgr) 
works mostly normally.  With a slight hiccup of it doesn't quite find 
drivers correctly, but I can work around that by browsing directly to 
the .PPD I need.

So how do I get my apps to actually recognize CUPS as the printing 
manager?  It used to be that I had a choice of all printers on all print 
managers when I'd select a printer in some apps, I'd see stuff like:
   CUPS/myprinter
   PostScript/myprinter
and such.  Now all I see in most apps is "Generic Printer" and nothing 
else, despite having several printers and pseudo-printers set up in the 
K Printing Manager.

I vaguely recall having to deal with something like this when I first 
set up Sarge, but that was over a year ago now, and I -er- misplaced my 
notes... (read: didn't take any)

Cheers,
~Brian

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