Some programs can't find printers
I'm running Fedora 15, x86_64, xfce gui on top of metacity.
Before I upgraded from Fedora 14, I could use several printers. 1. Now, when I open the print dialog, no printers show up from inside Firefox, Thunderbird, gnucash, f-spot, opera, planner, eclipse. 2. The printers ARE recognized inside Adobe acroread, bash/tcsh command line, libreoffice, openoffice, frescobaldi, gedit, evolution, gwenview, okular 3. Gimp is sort of in the middle. It doesn't show any printers in the print dialog, but I can print in only black & white via Gutenprint. |
If you have lpstat, try
Code:
lpstat -a Code:
fubar-trona-/home/trona: lpstat -a Hope this helps some. |
1. CUPS shows the printers as present and accepting requests.
2. Same for lpstat % lpstat -a Cups-PDF accepting requests since Wed 09 Jun 2010 07:25:25 AM PDT lexmark accepting requests since Mon 01 Aug 2011 11:49:38 PM PDT Phaser accepting requests since Mon 01 Aug 2011 04:08:17 PM PDT Phaser@yuri-cos5.cxi accepting requests since Tue 02 Aug 2011 09:22:34 AM PDT xerox accepting requests since Thu 28 Apr 2011 11:45:37 AM PDT 3. Some applications recognize the printers and can print just fine. (See item #2 in my initial posting, above.) 4. Some applications recognize none of the printers, and therefore, cannot print at all. (See item #1 in my initial posting, above.) Because of this divergence, it appears that there are two mechanisms for accessing the printers, and some class of the applications aren't using a working mechanism or the other mechanism broke. |
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