Can anyone use system-config-printer-applet?
 

Installation of the package system-config-printer installs /etc/xdg/autostart/system-config-printer.desktop, which is supposed to run system-config-printer-applet but in KDE.

In turn this exec a python app: /share/system-config-printer/applet.py that is supposed to handle print jobs communicating with cups through DBus.

But I can't get this to work.

I would expect to see a printer icon in the tray at startup and don't.

If I run system-config-printer-applet as regular user I get:This is probably due to a wrong setting in the cups config file. A process is running though:but I see no icon in the tray.

If I start X as root I do not get the error message but I still see no icon.

Any clue appreciated.

slackware version ?

14.2

According to this bug report that error can occur when the PrinterDriverInstaller dbus service is not installed. But I don't know much about dbus, so I don't know how to find out if it is installed.

Might be worth seeing if it is just an issue in the version of system-config-printer that is included in 14.2 (1.3.13). They have 1.5.8 out now. I just tried building it and it built fine (with just a regular ./bootstrap && ./configure && make), but I didn't try installing it since I don't have any printer hooked up to the machine. I imagine using the actual SlackBuild should work fine by just overriding the version number.

https://github.com/zdohnal/system-config-printer

system-config-printer-1.5.8.tar.gz

Didier,

Its working fine here (system-config-printer) on Salix 14.2 and Slackware 14.2. Did you make sure cups/cupsd is running?

stable or current ?

cause in "stable" , python-2.7.13 is bugged ....

14.2 is stable.

rebuild python , no need modify nothing, only build on your system, some problem detected with python in systems with more than one core cpu.


https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slack...source/python/

Thanks for your answers.

So far, no luck.

• Rebuilding && reinstalling python 2.7.13: no icon
• Downgrading to python 2.7.11: no icon
• Upgrading system-config-printer to 1.5.8: didn't work because /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py is now a python3 applet and pycups shipped in Slackware 14.2 only installs a python2 module, so importing the cups module fails.

I will investigate further later today.

What puzzles me is that it works for ChuangTzu. But to be sure:

@ChuangTzu: when you say "system-config-printer works" do you mean the full application (that also works here) or more specifically the applet? What happens if you type in a terminal system-config-printer-applet?

system-config-printer-1.5.8 need python3 and python gtk+3 binding,

Yes Gérard, so I won't upgrade system-config-printer to 1.5.8.

it work perfectly here, but i have all personal packages who are needed. ;)

Paquets perso ... Lesquels?

sorry it's 1.5.7 here, i have trying to build 1.5.8, it seem that it need systemd.

des paquets que je fais pour moi ;)

I was able to build it without systemd on 14.2, but I didn't try installing/running it. But, I just manually ran ./bootstrap && ./configure && make with no options. The make completed successfully.